After completing their best-ever performance to finish top of the standings at the World Junior Curling Championships, Scotland’s Team Carson now have their sights set on another first as they bid to reach the final in Denmark.
In what is their fourth crack at the event, having won the Scottish Junior Championship for four years in a row, Orrin and Logan Carson, Archie Hyslop and Charlie Gibb won eight of their nine round-robin matches, rounding that run off with an emphatic 11-2 win over Japan in just six ends and, while highly satisfied with the form they are taking into the medal matches, their skip believes they can still get better.
“We have been playing some really strong stuff,” said Orrin Carson. 
“There are still a few things we would like to work on and we’ll continue to do that.
“We have worked away at them throughout the week, but all in all it has been a great round robin and we are glad that it is over now so that we can look forward to the semi final.”
In what is their third appearance in the play-offs at the World Juniors, they have every reason to feel ready for what is coming as they bid to get into the gold medal game for the first time, having won bronze in both 2023 and 2025, while they narrowly missed out on the play-offs in 2024.
“I think we will lean on that experience when we need to, but it’s a brand new competition now, so we are really looking forward to that tomorrow night and we are going to try and make sure we can rectify the mistakes we have made over the past few years and hopefully reach our first final,” said Carson.
“It would mean a lot to us to finally get over that hurdle, so we are looking to put a strong performance in tomorrow night and can’t wait to get going.”
Their early finish against Japan left them with a wait to find out who they would meet in the semi-final, but Carson said that their full concentration was on their own performance ahead of their meeting with Italy, who finished in fourth place in the standings after losing their final round-robin match to Switzerland.
“Honestly we were not too bothered about who we were going to play in the semi finals,” he said.
“If we go out there and do our own thing and focus on ourselves, we will put ourselves in a great position against any of the other three teams that have reached the play-offs.
“We know now that it is in our own hands, so we just want to do our own thing and focus on ourselves.”
After a testing schedule, with nine matches in six days, he was pleased that they had earned additional preparation time for that meeting with the Italians, saying: “It’s a massive game, so it will be nice to get a lie-in and rest, re-group and re-set.”
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