Brad Jacobs and his Canadian teammates rebounded nicely on Tuesday at the 2025 BKT World Men’s Curling Championship in Moose Jaw, Sask.
The Jacobs rink followed up a loss to Scotland on Monday with a pair of wins on Tuesday to improve to 5-1 in the nine-day tournament.
The Canadian team, which includes third Marc Kennedy, second Brett Gallant, and lead Ben Hebert, sits in a tie for second in the 13-team tournament with Scotland after four days.
“I think one of the best things about this team is when we lose games, we talk about why,” Jacobs told reporters in media availability released by Curling Canada after an early win on Tuesday. “We had a really good discussion and debrief after the Scotland game to be able to come out today with the right energy and be in the right headspace. We’ve been resilient all season, so that’s a big win, beating Sweden. We were both three and one and keeping ourselves at one loss was a huge win for us.”
Jacobs opened the day with an 8-6 victory over Sweden’s Niklas Edin in Tuesday’s morning draw.
With the game tied at two through three ends following a singles by Sweden in the first and third ends surrounded Canada scoring a pair in the second end, Jacobs made a draw for three in the fourth end to take a 5-2 lead.
Jacobs called the three-ender “huge.”
“I didn’t really expect us to get a three; maybe two,” Jacobs added. “We had a really good opportunity when Niklas’s freeze sort of bounced and rolled edge on edge. If we threw a good stone, we could get low and force them into a ru back and we did. We got a break. They missed that one and we have an open draw for three and from there, we just controlled the board. We were able to score in the even ends of the board and control it right until the very end and get the win.”
The teams traded singles in the following three ends before Edin made it a 7-6 game thanks to a pair in the ninth end before Jacobs sealed the win in the 10th end.
In the evening draw, Jacobs picked up a 4-2 win over Italy, skipped by Joel Retornaz.
“We got a few misses here and there tonight,” Jacobs said. “It was little bit of a strange game. Some of our misses that the results turned out to be a bit catastrophic, but the rocks were thrown really well. That’s just how it goes sometimes. We were able to stay positive and bounce back and make some good shots even when things didn’t look that great and grinded out the win.”
After the teams traded singles in the opening two ends, the Jacobs rink took the lead for good in the third end after the Canadian skip made a draw for a pair on his final shot, making the score 3-1 at the time.
Facing three Canadian rocks in the fifth end, Retornaz made a draw for a single to cut the Canadian lead to 3-2.
Jacobs would blank the sixth end before making a draw against three himself in the seventh to make it a 4-2 game.
Following a pair of blanks, Team Canada would run the Italian team out of rocks in the 10th end after Jacobs made a double on his final shot to clear a pair of Italian rocks from the house and cap off the win.
The Jacobs rink returns to action on Wednesday with a pair of games.
The team will face Norway in the morning draw before finishing the day with a game against Czechia in the evening draw.