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Curling: Aberdeen’s Rebecca Morrison leads Scotland rink to European bronze

Rebecca Morrison. Image: WCF/Ansis Ventins
Rebecca Morrison. Image: WCF/Ansis Ventins

Aberdeen curler Rebecca Morrison says her Scotland rink have a “bright future” after they medalled at their first senior major championships.

Team Morrison eased past Italy 9-5 to win the bronze medal match at the Le Gruyere European Championships in Ostersund.

The quartet of Rebecca Morrison, Gina Aitken, Sophie Sinclair and Sophie Jackson seized control of the match with a steal of three at the opening end, before Italy rallied from their poor start by levelling the match at 4-4 by the midway break.

However, the Scots ran away with it in the latter stages against a team who had beaten them and finished above them in the round-robin stages.

Morrison, 26, whose team had suffered semi-final disappointment against Denmark on Thursday, thinks the still-developing rink’s bronze on their Euros debut was built on no shortage of resilience, saying: “At half-time we were all square, so we were back to the start again, but we just had to tell ourselves that we were really playing well out there and just keep it up.

“I think everyone kept their cool really well. No one got ahead of themselves, no one got nervous, we all just committed to every shot out there.

“We’ve come back from deficits several times this week, so it just shows how much resilience we have within our team to come back after difficult situations and fight back.”

Team Morrison have picked up the Scotland mantle following  Team Muirhead’s gold at the Winter Olympics earlier this year, and the subsequent retirement of some of the  stalwarts of Scottish women’s curling, including Muirhead herself.

“Considering this is our first championship together, it means we could have such a bright future together ahead of us and we look to just go onwards and upwards from this point,” said Morrison.

“Over the next cycle we’d love to make it to as many of these championships as we can and just get these opportunities over and over again to build ourselves as a team.”

The European Championships qualify teams for next year’s World Curling Championships with the women’s event (LGT World Women’s Curling Championship 2023) also taking place in Sweden in March (March 18-26 ).

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