Nice Britain slipped to a fourth successive defeat within the wheelchair curling blended group occasion on the Winter Paralympics and stay second-bottom of the standings on account 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 facet’s newest defeat means the very best they’ll obtain within the round-robin section is 4 wins – a tally already reached by 4 groups.
For the second time within the competitors, Nice Britain switched their quartet through 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 outstanding remaining stone right into a packed home to attain three, shifting his facet into an 8-5 lead with two ends remaining.
Nice Britain had been unable to discover a manner again, leaving them with a file 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, towards defending Paralympic champions China (08:05 GMT) and Latvia (19:05).
“We’ll do the easiest we are able to,” mentioned skip Hugh Nibloe.
“The strain has left us now.
“There are positives. We have not been destroyed like different groups have been.
“It is an inexperienced group and a few of these guys have extra Paralympics in them so let’s examine 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 blended doubles.
