CHAMPION: Murphy Wins 2018 Nova Scotia Deloitte Tankard

SKIP
Jamie
Murphy

Third
Paul
Flemming

Second
Scott
Saccary

Lead
Philip
Crowell

Jamie Murphy (Halifax, NS) won 9-5 over Mark Dacey (Halifax, NS) in the Final Murphy advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Nova Scotia Deloitte Tankard, held January 9 - 14, 2018 at the Dartmouth Curling Club in Dartmouth, Canada.

Murphy finished 5-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Murphy defeated Mike Flemming (Halifax, NS) 10-2, then went on to lose 7-6 against Brent MacDougall (Halifax, NS). Murphy responded with a 8-2 win over Greg Power (Halifax, NS). Murphy won 7-1 against Dacey, then won 12-6 against Kendal Thompson (Halifax, NS) and 8-3 against Chad Stevens (Halifax, NS). Murphy went on to lose 7-6 against Stuart Thompson (Dartmouth, NS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Nova Scotia Deloitte Tankard Championship title, Murphy earned 11.550 world rankings points. For week 23 of the event schedule, Murphy did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Murphy 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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