CHAMPION: Ginter Wins 2021 Grande Prairie Cash Spiel

SKIP
Jeff
Ginter

Third
Dean
Darwent

Second
Steve
Byrne

Lead
Darcy
Hafso

Jeff Ginter (Dawson Creek, BC) won 1-0 over Glen Hansen (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Grande Prairie Cash Spiel, held October 29 - 31, 2021 in Grande Prairie, Alberta. To advance to the championship game, Ginter won 1-0 over Janais DeJong (Grande Prairie, AB) in the semifinals

Ginter finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ginter lost 1-0 to Cortland Sonnenberg (Grande Prairie, AB), then responded with a 1-0 win over Scott Webb (Grande Prairie, AB). Ginter won 1-0 against Hansen in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Grande Prairie Cash Spiel Championship title, Ginter earned 7.123 world rankings points along with the $2,200CDN first prize cheque, moving up 40 spots the World Ranking Standings into 166th place overall with 14.112 total points. Ginter ranks 139th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.123 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	8	3	0	0.727	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	50	42	29	8.40	5.80	2.60	5.00	3.60	1.68	1.61	1.40

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	27	36	6	3	1-0	2-1	8-1	1.33	0.22	0.46	0.11

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	23	6	23	4	0-0	0-3	2-2	0.26	1.00	0.67	0.17

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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