CHAMPION: Adams Wins 2023 Jim Sullivan Curling Classic

SKIP
Melissa
Adams

Third
Jaclyn
Crandall

Second
Kendra
Lister

Lead
Kayla
Russell

Melissa Adams (Fredericton, NB) won 8-5 over Marie Christianson (Halifax, NS) in the Final of the Jim Sullivan Curling Classic, held November 17 - 19, 2023 at the Capital Winter Curling Club in Fredericton, Canada. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Adams won 8-2 over Kristen MacDiarmid (Halifax, NS) to advance to the championship game. of the 2023 Jim Sullivan Curling Classic in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada;

Adams finished 3-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Adams defeated Mackenzie Mitchell (Halifax, NS) 6-4, then won 5-2 against MacDiarmid and 8-5 against Jenna Campbell (Saint John, NB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Jim Sullivan Curling Classic Championship title, Adams earned 7.500 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 18 spots the World Ranking Standings into 94th place overall with 25.250 total points. Adams ranks 80th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 18.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	21	13	0	0.618	2-3	2-5	1-0	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	272	205	187	7.54	6.88	0.66	4.67	4.56	1.61	1.51	0.77

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	135	145	61	9	4-2	10-1	29-11	1.07	0.45	0.34	0.31

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	137	60	126	12	0-2	4-8	9-22	0.44	0.92	0.61	0.31

2023: Melissa Adams
Melissa Adams, Jaclyn Crandall, Kendra Lister, Kayla Russell
Fredericton, NB
2022: Suzanne Birt
Suzanne Birt, Marie Christianson, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle Shea
Summerside, PEI
2019: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min-Ji Um, Su ji Kim, Ye eun Seol, Ye ji Seol
Gyeonggido, KOR
2018: Suzanne Birt
Suzanne Birt, Marie Christianson, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle Shea
Charlottetown, PEI
2017: Sylvie Quillian
Sylvie Quillian, Melissa Adams, Nicole Arsenault-Bishop, Kendra Lister
Moncton, NB

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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