Scotland males missed out on a fourth successive European Curling Championship title as Germany sealed a 9-7 win on the ultimate stone.
Bruce Mouat’s rink led 2-0 after the primary finish however Marc Muskatewitz’s Germany have been 4-2 up by the top of the third.
The Scots acquired again stage on the subsequent finish and the lead modified arms over the subsequent three ends earlier than the Germans moved 8-6 in entrance.
That hole was shortly lowered to 1 within the penultimate finish and Muskatewitz guided his facet to the gold medal on the tenth finish.
“I believed we have been taking part in properly sufficient to win the championship, however typically you don’t have an important recreation,” Mouat mentioned. “It’s simply disappointing that it occurred within the gold medal match.
“I by no means carried out in addition to I hoped to. I missed a number of line calls and triggered some robust misses for the fellows, however we’re going to attempt to bounce again.
“If somebody had informed me that by the age of 30 I might have 4 gold medals and a silver on the Europeans, I might have been very impressed. However within the second it’s laborious to recover from how gutted we’re feeling that we didn’t get the fifth gold.”
Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan and alternate Kyle Waddell made up the Scottish workforce, whereas Benjamin Kapp, Felix Messenzehl, Johannes Scheuerl and alternate Mario Trevisiol fashioned the German rink with Muskatewitz.
Olympic silver medalist Mouat had additionally been profitable within the 2018 European closing and he additionally featured at this yr’s World Championships.
