By Donna Spencer
AOMORI, Japan (CP) - Canada's Kelly Scott was one win away from gold at the women's world curling championship Saturday.
Scott earned a berth in Sunday's final by beating Denmark's Angelina Jensen 11-3 in Saturday's Page playoff game between the top two seeds from the round-robin.
Canada's opponent Sunday (CBC, 1 a.m. ET, 1 p.m. ET taped) will be the winner of Saturday's later semifinal between Denmark and Scotland's Kelly Wood.
The Scott team out of the Kelowna Curling Club will start the final with last-rock advantage because Canada finished first in the round robin at 10-1 to get the hammer through the playoffs.
"We're one win away and there's no better time than now to go out and grab it," Scott said. "If we can get that win tomorrow, we're going to be so happy with ourselves."
As they did for much of the tournament, the Canadians came out of the gates hard Saturday by scoring two points in the third end, stealing a pair in the fourth and stealing another point in the fifth to lead 6-1.
Scott's team then went to work defending that margin by going after any Danish stone in the house, while putting the pressure on Denmark by drawing around guards in front of the rings.
Canadian third Jeanna Schraeder made a key double takeout in the seventh en route to her team scoring five points that end.
Playoff games are required to be a minimum of eight ends, or the Danes would have shaken hands and called it a day after the seventh.
"Definitely getting up early in the game wasn't what we had planned," Scott said. "We expected a much tighter game. We'll take it and run."
Scott's angle raise picked off Denmark's shot stone in the sixth to take away a chance for them to score two.
Denmark shuffled its lineup during the preliminary round because regular second Camilla Jensen, Angelina's sister, had to go home to write a university exam.
Angelina Jensen normally throws leads stones, so she moved up to second and alternate Ane Hansen was inserted at lead.
Denmark lost 8-1 to Canada and 8-4 to Italy to conclude the round robin after starting the week 8-1. But the Danish skip denied changing the makeup of their team was behind their woes Saturday.
"I don't think we had a problem about that because we knew that from the beginning and we have been talking about it from the beginning and Ane has been playing games," Jensen said. "That's not the reason."
"I don't know what went wrong, but we were really trying to fight and get back into the game."
The Danes couldn't match the Canadians' ability to bury draws deep behind cover and they wrecked on them chasing Scott into the rings.
Madeleine Dupont, who throws fourth stones, ticked guards twice in the fourth end to give up a steal of two.
The same mistake by Jensen in the fifth put Canada in position for the steal. Dupont wasn't able to execute her angle raise for one and gave up the single point.
Canada scored two in the third thanks to a couple draws that second Sasha Carter sealed behind cover.
The two countries traded single points in the first two ends. Denmark had to remove a stone burned by their sweepers in the second end.
The last Canadian team to win a women's world title was skipped by Colleen Jones in 2004.
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