Bottcher played a conservative first few ends against the unbeaten Glenn Howard of Tiny, Ont., with Howard blanking the first two ends and taking one in the third before Bottcher, the 2012 world junior men's champ, blanked the fourth. Bottcher turns up pressureIn the fifth, though, Bottcher turned up the pressure and it paid off with a game-turning four-ender, and he never looked back. "I wanted to start off a little slow, make sure that the guys and me felt relaxed and comfortable. That's why the first three or four ends were a little on the light side [for rocks in play]," said Bottcher. Tippin plays Calgary's Nadine Scotland in the B-side quarter-finals Saturday night, while McCarville plays Sherry Middaugh of Coldwater, Ont., in the other quarter-final.

Source: CBC News November 11, 2017 23:03 UTC