After qualifying as second seeds for the knockout stages of the Booster Juice World Junior Mixed Doubles Championship in Edmonton, Robyn Munro and Orrin Carson missed out on the medals after suffering a 7-6 loss to Sweden.
While a powerful finish to their round-robin campaign had seen the Scottish pair dominate the previously unbeaten USA to win 8-2 and finish top of their pool, they were unable to replicate that performance in the quarter-final later in the day, as they fell 5-1 behind at the midway interval.
They continued to battle bravely, but the World University Games champions had left themselves too much to do and ultimately had to accept defeat when Moa Dryburgh, the daughter of James Dryburgh, who won two World Junior Championship gold medals for Scotland in the nineties, took out one of the two stones they had lying alongside the button with the final delivery of the match.
“We just had a bit of a slow start and it was a bit disappointing giving up a steal in the first end before only being able to respond with one in the second,” said Munro.
“Losing the two at the third end and then the steal of two at the fourth to go 5-1 down, we left ourselves quite a bit of a hill to climb.
“I don’t think we let out heads go down or think that the game was over, we just kept chipping away and ultimately made her play her last shot.” 
As Munro reflected on what was a particularly significant year in her own career in particular, her last before graduating full-time to the senior circuit, the 21-year-old from Stranraer was able to put their efforts across the season into perspective.
“It’s a bitter-sweet end to what has been a really successful season together, undefeated through both junior events in Scotland and winning gold at the first World University Games and to win the right to compete at the first ever World Junior mixed doubles together,” she said.
“Especially in our first season playing together, it’s been a journey that we can both be very proud of.
“We’re both just a bit gutted that we couldn’t make it to the medal games, but we gave it our all and I enjoyed my last event as a junior and I’m glad to have shared that with Orrin and he has another year of juniors, so I’m sure he’ll be back to try for more.”.
Schedule and results:
Tuesday 6 May
Session 2 – 9pm (BST)
Scotland – Austria 9-2
Wednesday 7 May
Session 4 – 4pm
Scotland – Australia 10-1
Thursday 8 May
Session 9 – 9pm
Scotland – China 3-8
Friday 9 May
Session 11- 4pm
Scotland – Hungary 13-7
Session 13 – 11pm
Scotland – Brazil 9-1
Saturday 10 May
Session 15 – 4pm
Scotland – USA 8-2
Quarter Finals 1am
Scotland – Sweden 6-7
Sunday 11 May
Semi Finals 5pm
Final 10pm
Watch select streamed games on Curling Stadium Edmonton YouTube Channel
Team Scotland
Robyn Munro
Orrin Carson
Scott Andrews - Coach
Nancy Smith – Head Coach
