Another perfect day for Canada’s teams at World Senior Championships

There’s one fan whose shared allegiances at the 2025 World Senior Championships can be justified with no argument whatsoever.

Carolyn Morris is a two-time champion at the event — once skipping Scotland, where she was living at the time, in 2005 and then again for her native Canada in 2013 throwing third rocks for Cathy King in Fredericton, N.B., site of this year’s event.

This year, she’s in the stands with a custom-made combined Canadian and Scottish flag as her daughter-in-law, Cori Morris, is playing lead for Atina Ford Johnston’s unbeaten Canadian women’s team, while her son-in-law Tom Brewster is skipping the Scottish men’s team.

“She’s pulling double duty,” said a laughing Cori Morris, moments after the Canadian women improved to 2-0 with a 6-3 win over Sweden’s Team Camilla Noreen (1-1) Monday at Willie O’Ree Place. “She’s going to be watching a lot of curling this week. If anyone was up for it, though, it would be her.”

As meaningful as it is to be wearing a Canadian curling uniform for the first time since the 2010 Olympics, where she won silver playing lead for Team Cheryl Bernard, it’s equally special to be doing it with so many family members in the stands. Husband Sean Morris is here, along with their kids Cooper and Ellen, along with all the connections on the Scottish side of the family here cheering on Team Brewster.

“I feel very grateful to be representing Canada again,” said Cori Morris. “Every game is a gift and to have all the family here this week is pretty special. Carolyn is pretty unique out there, obviously. And it’s an amazing coincidence that we’re in the same city where she won her world title back in 2013. We’re hoping that that’s a good omen, but a there are a lot of games to come.”

The Canadian team representing clubs in Okotoks, Calgary and Sherwood Park, Alta., is rounded out by alternate/coach Lesley McEwan, who also was Carolyn Morris’s teammate on that 2013 World Championship team.

Canada had control for the first half of the game, largely thanks to a steal of two in the fourth end when Noreen was heavy on her last-rock draw, to give Team Ford Johnson a 3-0 lead.

But in the fifth, the Swedes struck back with a raise takeout to score three and tie it up.

An end later, though, Ford Johnston made two wonderful shots, an outturn draw behind cover and then another outturn tap on a partially buried Swedish stone, to score two — both with wonderful sweeps from Morris and second Sheri Pickering, and perfect line calls from vice-skip Shannon Morris.

Team Canada will be back in action Tuesday at 7 p.m. (all times Eastern) against the Czech Republic’s Team Hana Cechova (0-2).

Meanwhile, Randy Bryden’s Canadian men’s team from Regina improved to 3-0 on Monday with an 8-2 victory over England’s Team Ken Horton (2-1).

Bryden, backed up by vice-skip Troy Robinson, second Russ Bryden, lead Chris Semenchuck and alternate Glen Hill, opened the game with three in the first end, thanks largely to a great sweep from his brother Russ and Semenchuck on his last-rock draw.

It was a 4-2 Canadian lead through five ends before Team Bryden put the win away with back-to-back deuces in the sixth and seventh ends.

“We feel more comfortable on this ice for sure now,” said Robinson, whose team is trying to win Canada’s sixth consecutive World Senior Men’s gold medal. “You try not to think about it (gold-medal streak); you have to try and relax and then once you’re in the game, just stay in the present. That’s the old cliche, but yeah, stay in the present, stay in the moment.”

It’ll be an early morning assignment for the Canadian men on Tuesday as they take on Team Andrew Tanner of Wales (1-2) at 7 a.m.

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