We have no complaints,’ said Jersey skip Dingle.
‘They played better than we did, and it was a case of another day, another dollar.
On another day we might have turned out to be the winners.’ Two of the Canadians – Andrea Stadnyk and Anita Nivala – were in the quartet that took the fours silver medal in the Commonwealth Games in Manchester two years ago, while Helen Culley was US Open champion in 2000.
To be honest, the game slipped away from the Jersey trio from the start – though they opened the scoring with a double, before Canada picked up a three, a four and a five to lead 17-3 after 9 ends.
After that, it was realistically a battle to make the score more respectable – and to reach double figures, a landmark that the Channel Islanders achieved on the 17th end with a count of four shots.
Thinking they were due back on the green for the first phase of the play-offs for places five to eight, the Jersey trio were surprised to learn they had to sit it out for the rest of the afternoon.
They were back in action this morning, when they were due to play Botswana.
This afternoon, the winners of that contest will then meet for fifth place, while the losers will do battle over seventh place.
British champions Gean O’Neil and Karina Bisson, who just missed the cut to the pairs quarter finals, won their first play-off in Pool One, beating feisty Israeli duo Tzila Gavish and Ruti Gilor, 17-10.
It was a solid victory for Gean and Karina, who were 8-3 ahead after 8 ends, and 14-7 in front after 13, and it guaranteed them tenth place in the 29-nation field.
But, when they returned to the green to challenge Botswana’s Sheila Spring and Lebo Moroke for ninth place after lunch, they suffered a narrow 19-16 defeat.
