CHAMPION: Kinnear Wins 2018 The Dumfries Open

SKIP
Callum
Kinnear

Third
Luke
Carson

Second
Ryan
McCormack

Lead
Matthew
McKenzie

Callum Kinnear (Perth, SCO) won 6-2 over Robin Brydone (Stirling, SCO) in the Final of the The Dumfries Open, held October 5 - 7, 2018 in Dumfries, Scotland. To advance to the championship game, Kinnear won 7-1 over Blair Haswell (Stranraer, SCO) in the semifinals of the 2018 The Dumfries Open in Dumfries, Scotland; and won 10-1 over Garry Coombs (Hawarden, WAL) in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 The Dumfries Open in Dumfries, Scotland;

Kinnear finished 5-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kinnear defeated Ross Whyte (Aberdeen, SCO) 5-4, then won 7-2 against Haswell and 7-6 against Cameron McNay (Dumfries, SCO). Kinnear won 7-3 against Lisa Davies (Dumfries, SCO), then won 7-3 against Lucy Blair (Greenacres, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the The Dumfries Open Championship title, Kinnear earned 9.051 world rankings points along with the $1,025CDN first prize cheque. Kinnear move up 48 spots after posting a net gain of 7.9 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 144th overall with 19.412 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kinnear ranks 90th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.051 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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