CHAMPION: Smith-Dacey Wins 2013 Curl Atlantic Championship

SKIP
Heather
Smith

Third
Jill
Brothers

Second
Blisse
Joyce

Lead
Teri
Udle

Heather Smith-Dacey (Halifax, NS) won 7-4 over Suzanne Birt (Charlottetown, PEI) in the Final of the Curl Atlantic Championship, held September 12 - 15, 2013 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. To advance to the championship game, Smith-Dacey won 7-3 over Kathy O'Rourke (Charlottetown, PEI) in the semifinals

Smith-Dacey finished 5-0 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Smith-Dacey defeated Melissa Adams (Grand Falls, NB) 10-3, then won 8-1 against Shelley Nichols (St. John's, NL) and 7-2 against Beth Hamilton (St. John's, NL). Smith-Dacey won 4-1 against Sylvie Robichaud (Moncton, NB), then won 6-5 against Birt in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Curl Atlantic Championship Championship title, Smith-Dacey earned 3.000 world rankings points along with the $3,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 24 spots the World Ranking Standings into 69th place overall with 7.904 total points. Smith-Dacey ranks 28th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	40	16	0	0.714	19-6	15-8	9-3	1-0	2-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	466	351	252	7.53	5.41	2.12	4.49	3.76	1.68	1.44	1.76

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	223	231	62	39	5-1	15-3	45-9	1.04	0.28	0.35	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	243	120	190	43	7-3	8-9	13-32	0.49	0.78	0.66	0.28

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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