MEDFORD CURLING - Girls stay unbeaten; boys keep it close

MEDFORD CURLING

The Medford girls curling team was able to jump out to a big lead early in Tuesday’s home match against Wausau West and earned another win.

While the boys didn’t finish with a win, they fought hard against a historically dominant Wausau West team, keeping the visitors from scoring big ends allowing them to stay in the contest through the match.

The Medford girls jumped out ahead scoring three in the first end. The Wausau West girls answered back with two rocks in the second end.

Medford rallied and thanks to outside rocks scored five in the third end to bring the score to 8-2.

The girls went on a defensive mode in the next few ends seeking to keep Wausau West from putting up a big end of their own. Medford girls held the visitors to gains of one rock in the fourth and fifth ends and a gain of two in the sixth. In the seventh end the Medford girls laid one rock to bring the score to 7-6. Medford had a rock in count in the eighth end when the Wausau West skip conceded.

The boys match was characterized by having a lot of rocks in the house and low scoring ends as both teams vied for strategy over power.

Wausau West got on the board with two in the first end, which was answered by a big three-point end from Medford in the second end. Wausau West tied things up in the third end to make the score 3-3.

Wausau West went on to score one in each of the fifth, sixth and seventh ends. Medford’s hopes of being able to tie up the game at the tail end of the eighth end were dashed with a clean takeout of guard rocks by the Wausau West. Medford then conceded.