Swedish skip Niklas Edin acknowledges the crowd as he leaves the ice after being eliminated from competition by Team Canada at the Men's World Curling Championship in Ottawa on April 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Reigning Olympic champion Niklas Edin earned his first win at the HearingLife Tour Challenge on Wednesday with a 9-4 victory over American John Shuster.
The veteran Swede, who dropped his round-robin opener a day earlier, scored a deuce in the sixth end and added three more points in the seventh.
In other early games, Italy’s Joel Retornaz beat Winnipeg’s Reid Carruthers 4-2 and Japan’s Riku Yanagisawa edged Calgary’s Kevin Koe 6-5.
Ross Whyte topped reigning world champion Bruce Mouat 6-3 in a battle of Scottish rinks.
Three more draws were scheduled for later in the day.
Play continues through Sunday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 18, 2023.
