Canada team caps unbeaten run at Youth Winter Olympics with 10-4 win

LILLEHAMMER, Norway – Canada capped an unbeaten run at the Youth Winter Olympics mixed curling competition with a 10-4 win over Luc Violette of the United States in the championship game Wednesday.

Skip Mary Fay of Chester, N.S., guided her team of Tyler Tardi of Surrey, B.C., Karlee Burgess of Brookfield, N.S., and lead Sterling Middleton of Fort St. John, B.C., to a five-point first end for a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

“We knew that we want to take the hammer and we knew that we want an easy two,” Burgess said. “But when we got a five, it was like, ‘Wow. Let’s just keep this going.’”

The U.S., down by five in the seventh end, put up two corner guards but Canada peeled away every attempt by the Americans to generate offence. Fay later clinched the victory with an open tapback for a single.

Canada won bronze in the team competition at the first Winter Youth Olympics in 2012 at Innsbruck, Austria. Switzerland beat Italy for the gold medal that year.