Olympic Women’s Champion Jen Dodds and Men’s World Champion Bruce Mouat had to wait for the chance to cash in on the quality of their early play in their first match of day three at the World Mixed Doubles Championship in Fredericton, but they duly seized it to set up victory over Finland and maintain their 100 per cent record after four matches.
Starting with the hammer and last stone advantage, Scotland’s 2021 World Champions were in fine form from the outset, but a staunch rearguard action by Markus Siplia and, in particular, Lotta Immonen kept them in contention as scores of one were registered at the first three ends. 
The pressure the Scots were applying finally told, however, at the fourth end as they piled shots around the button, behind protection and this time Immonen was left with little chance with the final stone of the end, her attempt crashing on the guard and leaving the Scots counting three to lead 5-1 at the midway break.
Neither team was then able to capitalise fully on their powerplays, each scoring one, but at the seventh Dodds and Mouat turned the screws to claim their second steal of three and wrap up a 9-2 win.
“We had a really good start to the game and just had to be a bit patient to try to get the jump on them and at the fourth end we managed to get some misses out of them which allowed us to steal a three,” said Mouat.
“That was probably the first time we had seen any misses, so patience really was the key word, but it felt like we were in a good position throughout the whole game.”
The win left them in joint top position in their 10 team pool, with Canada and Olympic champions Italy also still unbeaten and while they know they will have a tough run in, the Scots are pleased with the way they are playing ahead of their next match against Korea, who have yet to register a first win.
“We’re playing well, we’re getting stones in the right positions and we’re making a lot of really good shots to put the opposition in a bit of trouble, so we just have to continue that through the next five games to see where we end up in our pool,” said Mouat.
“So it’s about keeping the momentum going and the Koreans are a really good team, we know that.
“They’ve not had their best start to this event, but we can’t take anything for granted here.
“We’re obviously just going to have to keep on doing what we’re doing and hopefully we can come away with a win in that one as well.” 
Scotland face Korea at 10pm (BST) tonight.
Schedule:
Saturday 26 April
Session 1
Scotland – Netherlands 10-3
Session 3 –
Scotland – China 8-5
Sunday 27 April
Session 5 –
Scotland – Denmark 7-3
Monday 28 April
Session 7
Scotland – Finland 9-2
Session 9 – 10pm (BST)
Scotland – Korea
Tuesday 29 April
Session 11 – 6pm (BST)
Scotland – Italy
Wednesday 30 April
Session 13 – 2pm (BST)
Scotland – Sweden
Session 15 10pm (BST)
Scotland – Germany
Thursday 1 May
Session 17- 6pm (BST)
Scotland – Canada
Friday 2 May
2pm - Qualification Games
10pm - Relegation Games
10pm - Semi Finals
Saturday 3 May
1.30pm - Bronze Medal Game
6.00pm - Gold Medal Game
Watch streamed games on The Curling Channel
Team Scotland
Jen Dodds
Bruce Mouat
Ross Paterson – Team Coach
Greg Drummond – Olympic Head Coach
Images: Rob Blanchard Photography
