CHAMPION: Virtue Wins 2013 Red Deer Curling Classic

Regina, Saskatchewan

SKIP
Brock
Virtue

Third
Braeden
Moskowy

Second
Chris
Schille

Lead
DJ
Kidby

Games:	10
Record:	8W - 2L
PF/G:	7.40
PA/G:	5.45
Hammer Efficiency:	0.27
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.63
Steal Efficiency:	0.36

Brock Virtue (Regina, SK) won 4-3 over Jeff Richard (Kelowna, BC) in the Final of the Red Deer Curling Classic, held November 1 - 4, 2013 in Red Deer, Alberta. To advance to the championship game, Virtue won 9-4 over Robert Schlender (Airdrie, AB) in the semifinals of the 2013 Red Deer Curling Classic in Red Deer, Alberta; and won 6-4 over Oskar Eriksson (Lit, SWE) in the quarterfinals.

Virtue finished 5-2 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Virtue defeated Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR) 5-4, then went on to lose 7-4 against Schlender. Virtue responded with a 7-3 win over Sean O'Connor (Calgary, AB). Virtue went on to lose 5-4 against Trevor Perepolkin (Vernon, BC). Virtue responded with a 4-2 win over Rob Maksymetz (Grande Prairie, AB). Virtue won 8-7 against Scott Bitz (Regina, SK), then won 6-3 against John Stroh (Medicine Hat, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Red Deer Curling Classic Championship title, Virtue earned 15.800 world rankings points along with the $10,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 26th place overall with 70.130 total points. Virtue ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 47.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	35	24	0	0.593	18-6	15-17	11-9	6-2	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	450	322	296	7.16	6.58	0.58	4.42	4.18	1.62	1.57	1.40

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	217	245	58	31	5-1	16-5	52-5	1.13	0.27	0.39	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	233	77	238	32	2-6	0-11	17-49	0.33	1.02	0.55	0.23

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