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Canada third B.J. Neufeld set things up nicely with a pair of quality shots. He made a brilliant double peel and followed with a throw that cleared the other stones and also tapped the lone South Korean stone off the 12-foot ring.
In other Draw 1 games, Japan's Yuta Matsumura topped Italy's Joel Retornaz 6-4 and Jaap Van Dorp of the Netherlands scored two in the 10th end for a 6-5 win over American John Shuster.The 33-year-old skip wasn't afraid to be aggressive. He delivered a nice angle-raise runback to sit shot stone in the first end before drawing for one.He drew for three points in the second end and nailed a hit and roll in the fifth that led to a single and 4-2 lead heading into the break.
In the ninth, with Canada sitting one in a crowded house, both skips were off on their final draw attempts. Kim was light and Koe was wide as Canada took a single. St. John's, N.L., skip Brad Gushue won silver for Canada at last year's world championship in Las Vegas.
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