McEwen takes silver, Morris bronze at curling worlds

Ottawa natives Dawn McEwen and John Morris both collected medals at their respective World Curling Championships – McEwen a silver from the March 14-22 women’s event in Japan and Morris a bronze from the March 28-April 5 men’s competition in Halifax.

McEwen, the lead for the Jennifer Jones rink, curled a game-high 89% in her team’s 5-3 defeat to Switzerland in the final. Team Canada went 9-2 in round robin play, lost the page playoff game 6-4 to the Swiss champs and then beat Russia 7-4 to earn their place in the championship match.

Morris went 10-1 in the round robin playing third for Pat Simmons’ rink before losing the page playoff to Norway and the semi-final to champion Sweden and then beating Finland 8-4 to earn bronze.

“We were pretty down after (the 6-3 semi-final loss to Sweden),” Morris said in a Curling Canada media release. “It feels good to go out on a note like that.”