Muirhead leads Scots women into the play-offs

Scotland guaranteed themselves a place in the weekend medal games at the world women’s champion- ship in Riga, Latvia with a further two wins in yesterday’s round-robin matches.

In the morning they beat Denmark 8-6 and then came back on to the ice in the evening session to beat Italy 8-4.

At the same time, Sweden beat Russia 10-3 to continue sharing the lead with Scotland and no matter what happens in today’s final round-robin sessions both of them are now in the play-offs.

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