CHAMPION: Cottrill/Cottrill Wins 2017 Southern States Mixed Doubles

Katie Cottrill/Shawn Cottrill (Listowel, ON) won 7-5 over Courtney Shaw/Melvin Shaw (Potomac, MD) in the Final of the Southern States Mixed Doubles, held December 29 - 31, 2017 at the Charlotte Curling Association in Charlote, United States.

Cottrill/Cottrill finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Cottrill/Cottrill defeated Lacie Byers/Matthew Kenlan (Charlotte, NC) 8-2, then won 13-4 against Carol McKee/David Coates (Charlotte, NC) and 8-4 against Alison Roark/Ryan Smith (Greenville, SC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Southern States Mixed Doubles Championship title, Cottrill/Cottrill earned 0.000 world rankings points along with the $1,387CDN first prize cheque. For week 21 of the event schedule, Cottrill/Cottrill did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Cottrill/Cottrill ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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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