Playoff picture starting to take shape at Mixed Doubles Championship

The race for playoff berths stepped up the intensity today at the 2013 USA Curling Mixed Doubles National Championship at the Capital Curling Club.

Minnesota's husband-wife duo of Pete and Maureen Stolt clinched at least a tiebreaker after earning a 6-3 win over Tim Doherty (St. Paul, Minn.) and Carol Strojny (Mendota Heights, Minn.) this morning to improve to 4-0. This was the first loss for Doherty and Strojny (3-1).

"This morning Pete and I knew it was going to be a tough battle," Maureen Stolt said. "Both Tim and Carol have been curling really, really well. They're a strong team coming out of St. Paul so we knew coming in that they would tough competition."

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