Further to the last post, the 7th round of women's games in the B Division at the European Championships saw Norway guaranteed a play-off place with their 7th consecutive win, 7-6 against Estonia - a game which looked to be heading Estonia's way until the last few stones. Austria increased their chances of progress by beating Spain 7-4, while the Turkish team overcame a running down time clock to defeat Poland 11-10 with the last stone of the game.
Belarus doubled their win tally with a 7-5 defeat of England while the last game came to a bizarre end. The score is recorded on the website as 8-7 to Latvia but it was in fact awarded to Latvia when Slovakia ran out of time in the extra end. The software package being used has no facility to record a game as a W or L when this happens.
It would appear that no one had noticed that the Slovakian time clock had run down as Latvia continued to play their last stone before the umpire intervened. Ironically Slovakia were lying shot and it appears to be incredible that nobody in the team had noticed that time was running out - at 9 minutes for an extra end this is surely enough time to play your 8 stones.
The current standings and games remaining are:
Norway 7 (ENG, ESP)
Austria 5 (LAT, EST)
Estonia 5 (AUT, TUR)
Turkey 4 (EST, ENG)
Latvia 4 (AUT, BLR)
Poland 3 (SVK, BLR)
England 2 (NOR, TUR)
Spain 2 (NOR, SVK)
Belarus 2 (LAT, POL)
Slovakia 1 (POL, ESP)
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