CHAMPION: Wakefield Wins 2012 Vancouver Island Shootout

Fourth
Michael
Johnson

Third
Paul
Cseke

SKIP
Jay
Wakefield

Lead
John
Cullen

Jay Wakefield (New Westminster, BC) won 9-2 over Neil Dangerfield (Victoria, BC) in the Final of the Vancouver Island Shootout, held November 9 - 12, 2012 at the Victoria Curling Club in Victoria, Canada. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Wakefield won 6-1 over Andrew Bilesky (Vancouver , BC) to advance to the championship game. of the 2012 Vancouver Island Shootout in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada;

Wakefield finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Wakefield defeated Cliff Carr-Hilton (Campbell River, BC) 8-4, then won 6-3 against Ken McArdle (New Westminster, BC) and 8-1 against Dangerfield in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Vancouver Island Shootout Championship title, Wakefield earned 2.500 world rankings points along with the $4,500CDN first prize cheque, moving up 6 spots the World Ranking Standings into 90th place overall with 14.901 total points. Wakefield ranks 68th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.425 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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