{"id":205704,"date":"2026-03-29T00:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/canadas-dunstone-suffers-first-loss-at-world-mens-curling-championship-chat-news-today\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T00:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:16:22","slug":"canadas-dunstone-suffers-first-loss-at-world-mens-curling-championship-chat-news-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/canadas-dunstone-suffers-first-loss-at-world-mens-curling-championship-chat-news-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Dunstone suffers first loss at world men\u2019s curling championship – CHAT News Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

OGDEN \u2014 Matt Dunstone\u2019s Canadian crew gave up a crucial three points in the fifth end to Ross Whyte of Scotland and couldn\u2019t recover, losing their first game of the world men\u2019s curling championship 8-3 in eight ends Saturday.
Dunstone, with third Colton Lott, second E.J. Harnden and lead Ryan Harnden, are 2-1 after four draws at the Weber County Ice Sheet.
Winless Scotland scored a deuce in the first end, then had steals of one in the second and third ends before Canada struck for two in the fourth to make it a 4-2 game. Whyte\u2019s three in the fifth end led to early handshakes after the teams traded single points over the next two ends.
\u201cTheir backs were against the wall \u2014 0-and-2, right?\u201d said Dunstone. \u201cYou know you were going to get a pretty good version of them today and we did. All good; I mean, it\u2019s a long week, and (they\u2019re) a great team, too.\u201d
\u201cThey played really well,\u201d said Lott. We got behind the 8-ball early, and when a team\u2019s playing like that it\u2019s very hard to come back. As much as you want to win them all, it\u2019s such a hard field and it really shows us going forward here the resilience and being able to bounce back after this game.\u201d
Dunstone was philosophical about the defeat, knowing that running the table in a 13-team round robin is a tall task.
\u201cIf it were to happen, great, but obviously, it\u2019s not going to anymore,\u201d he said. \u201cSo we\u2019ve got the rest of the day off, (we can) regroup and get ready for Team USA tomorrow. We\u2019ve been in this territory many, many times before.
\u201cWe\u2019re 25 per cent of the way through the round robin. Even today, I thought we did a lot of things well. Ross just made every shot under the sun, and I couldn\u2019t answer.\u201d
Sweden, which defeated China 9-2, leads the 13-team event with a 3-0 record. Germany, Japan and Switzerland are all 2-0, while Canada and China are at 2-1.
Dunstone will play on Sunday against the United States, who were 1-1 heading into Saturday\u2019s late draw against 1-2 Scotland.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 28, 2026.

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