On their first competitive visit to Canada, Scotland's Booster Juice World Junior Mixed Doubles Championships debutants Tia Laurie and Ethan Brewster ended their superb campaign in style by getting among the medals, beating Denmark 10-7 in the battle for bronze at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton.
Just seven days after claiming the World Open Under 25 Championships on the same ice, the Scottish Junior title winning pair, who had both won gold medals at the Youth Olympic Games two years earlier, recovered from losing just the second of the 16 matches they played across the two events when they were edged out 6-5 in the semi-final against title winners Japan, to ensure they finished on a high.
After a tight opening to the match, they looked to have gained control with a five at the fourth end to move into a 7-3 lead and they extended their advantage to 9-4 with two ends to play. 
Their opponents then showed real fight to score three at the seventh end and piled on the pressure at the last, lying a potentially match winning three shots around the button and behind a guard ahead of Laurie's final delivery of the match.
However, they had left just sufficient room for her to out-score them and she held her nerve magnificently to draw her stone around the guard and onto the button, with Brewster carefully managing it all the way.
"It feels absolutely amazing to win a medal at our first ever World Championships," said the 19-year-old British Curling performance foundation athlete.
"It was obviously disappointing not to win our semi final earlier in the day, but it was a great bounce back from us to go on to win the bronze.
“I felt like I knew my draw weight and my kick speed and everything and we had plenty of time so there was no rush and I just took my time, threw it and gave it to Ethan to sweep and he swept it perfectly right to the button.
“It has been an absolutely amazing couple of weeks and obviously winning last week was amazing especially at an under 25 event and to come away with a world medal at the end of it is even better.
"I think it gave us a whole lot of experience which we will use going forward in our future curling careers.”
Brewster was similarly satisfied with both the way they responded to the adversity of losing the semi-final and producing in the big moments once again.
“I think we have been really positive this whole event and it was about not letting our heads go down," he said.
"We knew we played well against Japan and it was just one or two unlucky shots that really cost us that game, so we just had to stick in and we knew we could win a medal which is why we have been able to come away with that win and our bronze.
"Playing in a world championships, well you don’t really get much better than that, so we will definitely take this whole experience into account and use it in the future.”
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Results:
Scotland – Australia 8-7
Scotland – Korea 9-1
Scotland – China 7-3
Scotland – France 8-0
Scotland – Philippines 14-1
Scotland – Austria 11-2
Quarter Finals
Scotland - Korea 7-5
Semi Finals
Scotland – Japan 5-6
Bronze Medal Match
Scotland – Denmark 10-7
Gold Medal Match
Japan – Canada 6-5
Images: British Curling
