Jacobs Runner-Up at 2021 Tim Hortons Curling Trials

SKIP
Brad
Jacobs

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
E.J.
Harnden

Lead
Ryan
Harnden

Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste. Marie, NONT) lost 4-3 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in the Final of the Tim Hortons Curling Trials, held November 20 - 28, 2021 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. To advance to the championship game, Jacobs won 8-3 over Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) in the semifinals of the 2021 Tim Hortons Curling Trials in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan;

Jacobs finished 7-1 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jacobs defeated John Epping (Toronto, ON) 9-3, then won 7-6 against Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) and 5-2 against Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB). Jacobs went on to lose 7-6 against Gushue. Jacobs responded with a 7-5 win over Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, MB). Jacobs won 7-3 against Koe, then won 9-5 against Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB) and 12-5 against Tanner Horgan (Kingston, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Tim Hortons Curling Trials, Jacobs take home 74.239 world rankings points. Jacobs gained 28.95 points improving upon their best 3 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 2ndplace overall with 434.629 total points. Jacobs ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 192.746 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	51	18	0	0.739	17-3	9-4	7-2	3-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	534	442	287	8.28	5.37	2.90	4.49	3.76	1.84	1.43	1.74

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	255	358	41	41	17-0	23-1	76-6	1.40	0.16	0.54	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	279	84	246	52	1-1	5-16	12-43	0.30	0.88	0.64	0.21

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