CHAMPION: Montgomery Wins 2023 King Cash Spiel

Victoria, British Columbia

SKIP
Jason
Montgomery

Third
Chris
Baier

Second
Miles
Craig

Lead
Troy
Cowan

Games:	6
Record:	6W - 0L
PF/G:	10.98
PA/G:	4.88
Hammer Efficiency:	0.56
Steal Defense:	0.05
Force Efficiency:	0.64
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Jason Montgomery (Victoria, BC) won 8-2 over Jeff Richard (Kelowna, BC) in the Final of the King Cash Spiel, held October 20 - 22, 2023 at the Golden Ears Curling Club in Maple Ridge, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Montgomery won 8-4 over Jared Kolomaya (Richmond, BC) in the semifinals of the 2023 King Cash Spiel in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada; and won 7-5 over Brent Pierce (New Westminster, BC) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 King Cash Spiel in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada;

Montgomery finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Montgomery defeated 's Jeff Guignard 8-3, then won 6-5 against Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR) and 8-1 against Nicholas Connolly (Seattle, WA) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the King Cash Spiel Championship title, Montgomery earned 11.250 world rankings points along with the $4,000CDN first prize cheque. Montgomery move up 29 spots after posting a net gain of 8 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 110th overall with 27.500 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Montgomery ranks 86th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 11.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	20	8	0	0.714	1-0	1-2	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	210	178	126	8.48	6.00	2.48	4.71	4.05	1.80	1.48	1.24

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	104	137	20	17	9-0	8-0	21-3	1.32	0.19	0.44	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	106	41	106	9	0-2	1-5	10-22	0.39	1.00	0.57	0.27

2023: Jason Montgomery
Jason Montgomery, Chris Baier, Miles Craig, Troy Cowan
Victoria, BC
2022: Riku Yanagisawa
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2021: Sebastien Robillard
Sebastien Robillard, Bowie Abbis-Mills, Cody Tanaka, Nathan Small
New Westminster, BC
2019: Sean Geall
Sean Geall, Jared Kolomaya, Sebastien Robillard, Nicholas Meister
New Westminster, BC
2018: Tyler Tardi
Tyler Tardi, Sterling Middleton, Matthew Hall, Alex Horvath, Tyler Tardi
Langley, BC
2017: Sean Geall
Sean Geall, Grant Dezura, Andrew Nerpin, Brendan Willis
Kelowna, BC
2017: Dean Joanisse
Dean Joanisse, Paul Cseke, Jay Wakefield, John Cullen
Maple Ridge, BC
2014: Neil Dangerfield
Neil Dangerfield, Denis Sutton, Darren Boden, Glen Allen
Victoria, BC
2013: Sean Geall
Sean Geall, Ken Maskiewich, Sebastien Robillard, Kent Bird
New Westminster, BC
1994: Al Moore
Al Moore, Ross Graham, Peter VanLeeuwen, Kieron Hunt
North Vancouver, BC

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