CHAMPION: Dunstone Wins Soo Curlers Fall Classic presented by KIOTI Tractors

SKIP
Matt
Dunstone

Third
B.J.
Neufeld

Second
Colton
Lott

Lead
Ryan
Harnden

Matt Dunstone (Winnipeg, MB) won 8-7 over Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) in the Final of the Soo Curlers Fall Classic presented by KIOTI Tractors, held October 26 - 29 at the YNCU Curling Centre in Sault Ste.Marie, . To advance to the championship game, Dunstone won 7-3 over Tanner Horgan (Sudbury, NONT) in the semifinals of the Soo Curlers Fall Classic presented by KIOTI Tractors in Sault Ste.Marie; and won 7-5 over Mark Kean (Oakville, ON) in the quarterfinals. of the Soo Curlers Fall Classic presented by KIOTI Tractors in Sault Ste.Marie;

Dunstone finished 3-0 in the 21-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dunstone defeated Brian Adams Jr. (Thunder Bay, NONT) 9-4, then won 11-5 against Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA) and 6-4 against Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Soo Curlers Fall Classic presented by KIOTI Tractors Championship title, Dunstone earned 30.000 world rankings points along with the $23,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 6th place overall with 315.875 total points. Dunstone ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 102.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	41	19	0	0.683	7-2	3-4	3-1	2-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	467	385	295	8.24	6.32	1.93	4.60	4.20	1.79	1.51	1.20

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	213	293	45	16	3-0	29-1	68-4	1.38	0.21	0.51	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	254	92	250	40	3-4	7-17	12-47	0.36	0.98	0.57	0.22

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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