A dominant performance in the third place play-off saw Team Carson’s quartet of teenagers claim a bronze medal to round off a superb week’s work at the World Junior Championships in Germany.
Skip Orrin Carson, younger brother Logan, Archie Hyslop and Charlie Gibb were one of the youngest line-ups ever to take the ice in this competition, but they played with enormous maturity on their debut at this level, not least in the way they recovered from the disappointment of losing the previous day’s semi-final to China, who went on to lift the title. 
They were in control of the bronze medal match from the off, registering a three at the opening end and after an exchange of forced singles, stealing another shot at the fourth to set up a commanding 5-1 lead.
A three at the sixth end then effectively wrapped things up and while the Norwegians gamely played on, they finally accepted defeat when a steal of two by the Scots took their lead to 11-4 after the ninth end.
“This feels pretty good, especially after last night,” said the Scottish skip.
“We were desperate to win today, because we felt we deserved to at least get a medal.”
On a day that had already seen Team Henderson claim gold in the women’s event at the Fussen arena and following on from last year’s title win in the men’s event by compatriots Team Craik, their performance was the latest indicator of how promising things are looking for curling in Scotland.
And as the senior figure at 17-years-old, Carson paid tribute to the way his teammates had performed.
“I’m really proud of them,” he said.
“They’re all 15 and I think it’s amazing that they’re competing at this level. 
“Throughout the season we’ve played really well and this is what we’ve been working towards.”
Their success bodes well, since the older Carson can compete in the World Juniors for another four years, while his teammates will have six more opportunities to qualify for this event.
“We can take away so much experience from this week, so we’ll try to transfer that onto all our Scottish competitions and hopefully we’ll be back here next year,” he said.
The final was contested between the only teams that had beaten the Scots in the course of the week, with China overcoming hosts Germany 8-7 in the final.
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Scotland women
Fay Henderson
Robyn Munro
Holly Wilkie-Milne
Laura Watt
Amy Mitchell (Alternate)
Colin Morrison (Team Coach)
David Aitken (Head Coach)
Scotland men
Orrin Carson
Logan Carson
Archie Hyslop
Charlie Gibb
Scott Hyslop (Alternate)
Ryan Carson (Team Coach)
David Aitken (Head Coach)
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Schedule and Results
Game times: 0800, 1300, 1800 (GMT)
Day One – Saturday 25 February
Scotland women
Scotland – Germany 7-5
Scotland men
Scotland – Canada 7-2
Scotland women
Scotland – Latvia 8-5
Day Two – Sunday 26 February
Scotland men
Scotland – Turkiye 8-3
Scotland women
Scotland – Japan 4-3
Scotland men
Scotland – Italy 10-3
Day Three – Monday 27 February
Scotland women
Scotland – Canada 6-7
Scotland men
Scotland – Germany 5-7
Scotland women
Scotland – Sweden 8-6
Day Four – Tuesday 28 February
Scotland men
Scotland – China 3-9
Scotland women
Scotland – Switzerland 2-10
Scotland men
Scotland – Switzerland 8-3
Day Five – Wednesday 1 March
Scotland women
Scotland – Korea 6-5
Scotland men
Scotland – Korea 7-6
Scotland women
Scotland – Norway 6-7
Day Six – Thursday 2 March
Scotland men
Scotland – USA 6-2
Scotland women
Scotland – USA 8-7
Scotland men
Scotland – Norway 8-5
Day Seven – Friday 3 March
Women’s Semi Final 13.00 Scotland v Norway 6-5
Men’s Semi Final 18.00 Scotland v China 1-8
Day Eight – Saturday 4 March
Women’s Finals 08.00 – Scotland v Japan 9-7
Bronze medal game Norway v Switzerland 8-5
Men’s Finals13.00 Germany v China 7-8
Bronze medal game Scotland v Norway 11-4
Image: WCF/Alina Pavlyuchik& STEPHEN FISHER
