Canada’s Jacobs defeats Japan, Germany on opening day at men’s curling world championship [Video]

After a triumphant run to a Montana’s Brier title earlier this month, Brad Jacobs and his Canadian teammates picked up where they left off Saturday at the men’s curling world championship in Moose Jaw, Sask.

Jacobs and his Calgary-based team defeated Japan’s Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi 7-3 in the round-robin opener before posting a 7-5 win over Germany’s Marc Muskatewitz in the evening.

“A great day, I couldn’t ask for more,” Jacobs said. “We beat two good teams today.”

The host side opened with hammer in the afternoon matchup and blanked the first three ends as players got used to the ice in the 4,200-seat Temple Gardens Centre venue.

Jacobs sunk a stone under a pair of guards in the fourth end to open the scoring with a deuce. Canada kept the pressure on in the fifth by forcing Japanese fourth Riku Yanagisawa to draw for one through a port against three …