McLean surrenders eight-ender
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This article was published 22/01/2015 (4151 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WINKLER — Tiffany McLean’s first-ever game at a provincial Scotties Tournament of Hearts will be one that everyone at the Winkler Arena will remember for the rest of their lives.
McLean and her Dauphin-based women’s curling team of Heather Bruederlin, Blaire Rempel and Cassandra Lesiuk, all of whom live in Brandon, gave up the first eight-ender ever recorded at the Scotties in the seventh end of a 16-3 loss to Kerri Einarson of East St. Paul on Wednesday.
Tied 3-3 through five ends, things got away from McLean’s team after the break, giving in five in the sixth end. Then, with her final shot in the seventh, McLean tried to draw to an Einarson rock in the back eight-foot, but it didn’t curl and chipped off of it to the edge of the 12-foot to give up the steal of eight.
“I guess momentum switched on the way coming back. We tried to draw again and we just weren’t making them,” McLean said.
“I didn’t even know it was an eight-ender and neither did my third, and my front end didn’t want to say anything,” McLean said. “They just let me throw it and I thought it was going to curl more than it did. I just thought it was going to curl up and it didn’t, and they had an opportunity to sweep it out.”
Despite going down in history for a reason she’d like to forget, McLean remains confident about the rest of the week.
“The first five ends we were going shot-for-shot with them and it was good. We stole one (point),” she said. “We’re obviously capable and lesson learned. Next game we’ll be better and stay on our toes.”
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