Peterman and Gallant take first loss at 2025 World Mixed Doubles Championship

A team that has played together as long as Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant has enough experience with the highs and lows of mixed doubles curling to deal with the occasional disappointing loss.

That will be the overnight task for the Chestermere, Alta.-based Canadian team, along with team coach Laine Peters and national coach Scott Pfeifer, after a hard-to-swallow 7-5 setback to Italy’s Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner Monday night at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

“It’s frustrating but we know how to move on,” said Gallant. “We’ve got to get back to doing some of the things that we do well, control what we can control. They made some fantastic shots late in that game to win, so we’ll just have to come back and play our game (Tuesday) and we should be in good shape.”

Both teams entered the showdown at Willie O’Ree Place in Fredericton, N.B., with 4-0 records, and the result left Italy as the lone unbeaten entry in their 10-team round-robin pool, while Canada is tied for second place at 4-1 with Scotland’s Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat and Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg and Oskar Eriksson.

It was a split of Monday’s games for Team Canada, which earlier in the day defeated Lisenka Bomas and Wouter Goesgens of the Netherlands 7-3.

It was looking like it would be a perfect Monday for Canada for much of the game against Italy; Peterman and Gallant held a 5-2 lead through five ends, and were in an ideal position after six when they held the Italians to a deuce on their power play.

But Canada’s own power play in the seventh wasn’t successful as Peterman’s attempt to remove a frozen Italian stone and score a possible deuce didn’t make contact.

And in the eighth, after a couple barely missed runback attempts from Gallant, and then a splendid double-raise takeout from Constantini, Peterman’s attempt to draw to the side of the button for the win came up short.

“It was a close game,” said Peterman. “A couple shots here and there that didn’t go our way and she made a beauty on her last.”

The day opened with the victory over a Dutch duo that hung tough for much of the game.

But the air-tight defence of Peterman and Gallant held the Netherlands to scores in just two of the seven ends — a single in the first end, and then a nice deuce in the fourth on a precise raise to the four-foot.

From there, though, it was all Canada as Peterman and Gallant managed a crucial single in the fifth end on a precise draw to bite the button, then added a steal of one in the sixth and two more in the seventh to prompt a concession from Bomas and Goesgens.

Team Canada has one game on the docket on Tuesday, at 1 p.m. (all times Eastern) against South Korea’s Kyeongae Kim and Jihoon Seong (1-4).

Being able to bounce back from disappointments such as Monday night’s goes with the territory, said Gallant.

“It’s like any big curling competition,” he said. “It’s mostly mental. The physical training is done before the event starts and at that point, it’s just managing your thoughts and your strategy and everything like that.”

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