CHAMPION: McDonald Wins 2018 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena)

Kingston, Ontario

SKIP
Scott
McDonald

Third
Jonathan
Beuk

Second
Wesley
Forget

Lead
Scott
Chadwick

Games:	10
Record:	8W - 2L
PF/G:	8.79
PA/G:	6.82
Hammer Efficiency:	0.39
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.45
Steal Efficiency:	0.28

Scott McDonald (Kingston, ON) won 7-3 over Charley Thomas (Toronto, ON) in the Final of the Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena), held October 18 - 21, 2018 at the Buckingham Curling Club in Buckingham, Canada. To advance to the championship game, McDonald won 8-5 over Jia Liang Zang (Harbin, CHN) in the semifinals of the 2018 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena) in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada; and won 7-6 over Michael Fournier (Montreal, QC) in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena) in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada;

McDonald finished 5-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, McDonald lost 8-2 to Brent MacDougall (Halifax, NS), then responded with a 6-4 win over Doug Kee (Ottawa, ON). McDonald won 6-5 against John Epping (Toronto, ON). McDonald went on to lose 5-3 against Mark Homan (Chelsea, QC). McDonald responded with a 7-0 win over Greg Smith (St. John's, NL). McDonald won 7-5 against MacDougall, then won 5-4 against Steve Allen (Ottawa, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena) Championship title, McDonald earned 43.258 world rankings points along with the $11,000CDN first prize cheque. McDonald move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 29.41 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 17th overall with 231.899 total points on the World Ranking Standings. McDonald ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 121.120 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

2009: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Jean Gagnon
Gatineau, QC
2010: Serge Reid
Serge Reid, Francois Gionest, Simon Collin, Steeve Villeneuve
Saguenay, QC
2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau/Levis, QC
2012: Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Andrew Gibson
Halifax, NS
2013: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Craig Savill, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2017: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Xiao Ming Xu, Dongxu Jiang, Jia Liang Zang
Harbin, CHN
2018: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Jonathan Beuk, Wesley Forget, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON

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