The U.S. needed a win, and while it didn't come easy, the team of Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin were able to steal a victory from Estonia on Sunday to snap a two-game losing skid in Cortina.

The match started with a force in each of the first five ends. 

In the sixth, Team USA had a great chance at three, sitting one in the house and one biting just on the outside. All they needed on Thiesse's hammer throw was a takeout of the lone Estonian stone in the eight-foot. Her throw, though, hit a guard on the way down the ice and never even made it into the house, and the U.S. was forced to settle for one again and a tied match, 3-3, with two ends to play.

The U.S. took its first lead of the day in the seventh. With the U.S. sitting a lone stone on the button, the only rock in the four-foot, Marie Kaldvee's hammer throw was just wide of a takeout attempt, allowing the Americans to steal a single point and go into the eighth up, 4-3.

Nearly the exact same scenario played out in the eighth. The U.S. was sitting shot stone on the top of the button in front of an Estonian rock at the back. Kaldvee's hammer throw takeout attempt again tapped the U.S. stone, but not enough to move it, and the Americans stole another point to clinch the victory.

With the win, the U.S. improves to 5-2 in Cortina, and needs to win just one of their two remaining round-robin games to clinch a spot in the semifinals. That won't be an easy task, though. They'll face Sweden (5-3) at 1:05 p.m. ET on Sunday, and return on Monday morning to play Italy (5-2) at 4:05 a.m. ET. Sweden is currently fourth in the standings, and Italy is tied with the U.S. for second.

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