CHAMPION: Montford Wins 2013 St. Paul Cash Spiel

SKIP
Michelle
Montford

Third
Lisa
McLeod

Second
Sara
Van Walleghem

Lead
Sarah
Neufeld

Michelle Montford (Winnipeg, MB) won 7-4 over Alexandra Carlson (St Paul, MN) in the Final of the St. Paul Cash Spiel, held October 4 - 6, 2013 at the St. Paul Curling Club in St. Paul, . To advance to the championship game, Montford won 8-0 over Nina Spatola (Madison, WI) in the semifinals

Montford finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Montford defeated Sarah Anderson (Philadelphia, PA) 10-4, then won 8-3 against Kimberly Wapola (Saint Paul, MN) and 4-0 against Minnesota's Courtney George. Montford went on to lose 6-5 against Jenna Haag (Janesville, WI). Montford responded with a 7-6 win over Maureen Stolt (St. Paul, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the St. Paul Cash Spiel Championship title, Montford earned 3.250 world rankings points along with the $3,091CDN first prize cheque, moving up 30 spots the World Ranking Standings into 90th place overall with 6.361 total points. Montford ranks 48th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	25	14	0	0.641	7-4	5-2	0-1	0-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	287	217	173	7.56	6.03	1.53	4.53	4.15	1.67	1.45	1.32

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	139	156	49	14	2-1	14-3	33-4	1.12	0.35	0.39	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	148	61	124	24	2-1	2-6	10-26	0.41	0.84	0.60	0.28

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