Nice Britain slipped to a fourth successive defeat within the wheelchair curling combined workforce occasion on the Winter Paralympics and stay second-bottom of the standings because of an 8-6 loss to Italy.
Solely the highest 4 of the ten competing nations in Cortina will qualify for the semi-finals and the British aspect’s newest defeat means the most effective they will obtain within the round-robin part is 4 wins – a tally already reached by 4 groups.
For the second time within the competitors, Nice Britain switched their quartet throughout the course of a match. Trailing the hosts 5-3 on the midway stage, alternate Graeme Stewart changed Austin McKenzie.
The decisive second got here within the sixth finish when Italian skip Egidio Marchese delivered an excellent closing stone right into a packed home to attain three, shifting his aspect into an 8-5 lead with two ends remaining.
Nice Britain had been unable to discover a method again, leaving them with a report of 1 win and 5 defeats from six matches.
They’ve three round-robin video games left to play and two of these are on Wednesday, in opposition to defending Paralympic champions China (08:05 GMT) and Latvia (19:05).
“We’ll do the perfect we are able to,” stated skip Hugh Nibloe.
“The stress has left us now.
“There are positives. We have not been destroyed like different groups have been.
“It is an inexperienced workforce and a few of these guys have extra Paralympics in them so let’s have a look at what it feels prefer to win once more.”
On Monday, British pair Jo Butterfield and Jason Kean narrowly missed out on qualification for the semi-finals of the combined doubles.
