CHAMPION: Birchard/Gunnlaugson Wins 2017 Pacific Northwest Mixed Doubles Invitational

Shannon Birchard/Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, MB) won 6-5 over Jamie Sinclair/Korey Dropkin (Blaine, USA) in the Final of the Pacific Northwest Mixed Doubles Invitational, held October 13 - 15, 2017 at the Seattle Granite Club in Seattle, United States. To advance to the championship game, Birchard/Gunnlaugson won 10-7 over Rui Wang/De Xin Ba (Harbin, CHN) in the semifinals of the 2017 Pacific Northwest Mixed Doubles Invitational in Seattle, Washington, United States; and won 9-2 over Hyeji Jang/Ki Jeong Lee (Uiseong, KOR) in the quarterfinals.

Birchard/Gunnlaugson finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Birchard/Gunnlaugson defeated Maureen Stolt/Peter Stolt (Minneapolis, MN) 8-0, then won 7-6 against Bobbie Sauder/Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) and 5-3 against Wang/Ba in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Pacific Northwest Mixed Doubles Invitational Championship title, Birchard/Gunnlaugson earned 0.000 world rankings points along with the $3,762CDN first prize cheque. For week 10 of the event schedule, Birchard/Gunnlaugson did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Birchard/Gunnlaugson 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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