And futher disappointments early today mean none of the Island team will progress into the knockout rounds.
Yesterday, although Karina Bisson collected valuable points from her 21-18 win over Spain’s Pam Cole, she slipped up against Welsh hope Kathy Pearce, with whom she shares fifth place.
The top four in each section earn quarter-final spots, and there were four women tied in fifth place, waiting to take advantage of a possible slip-up on the part of Botswana’s Lebogang Mascarenhas or Fijian Litia Tikoisuva, who are tied in third place.
Gaynor Thomas, Chris Grimes, Liz Cole and Suzie Dingle started the day with a bang, handing out a rare defeat to mighty Australia – in a remarkably low-scoring encounter that yielded only 30 shots in 18 ends.
The Jersey quartet won, 13-7, and scored the same number of shots after lunch, when, sadly, the youthful Canadian team piled up 20.
That put Jersey level fifth place in the table, too, but results this morning prevent them getting into the quarter finals.
Yesterday was not a good day for Jersey’s men: Jamie MacDonald and Lee Nixon lost 23-11 to Fiji and 21-9 Australia, while Derek Boswell, Alan Shaw and Cyril Renouf went down to Zimbabwe, 19-11, and Brunei 17-15.
