CHAMPION: Mariani Wins Italian National Curling Championship

SKIP
Rebecca
Mariani

Third
Giorgia
Maurino

Second
Lucrezia
Grande

Lead
Rachele
Scalesse

Rebecca Mariani (Trentino, ITA) won 6-4 over Stefania Constantini (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA) in the Final Mariani advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Italian National Curling Championship, held February 7 - 11 in Pinerolo, Italy.

Mariani finished 5-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mariani defeated Veronica Zappone (Torino, ITA) 5-2, then won 5-4 against Giada Mosaner (Trentino, ITA) and 7-3 against Constantini. Mariani won 10-4 against Giorgia Maurino (Trentino, ITA), then won 8-5 against Denise Pimpini (Piemonte, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Italian National Curling Championship Championship title, Mariani earned 11.250 world rankings points, moving up 123 spots the World Ranking Standings into 124th place overall with 12.375 total points. Mariani ranks 124th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	15	12	0	0.556	3-0	3-2	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	192	168	143	8.75	7.45	1.30	5.00	4.01	1.75	1.86	0.99

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	90	104	31	11	5-0	7-2	15-6	1.16	0.34	0.34	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	102	64	112	8	1-6	6-7	11-23	0.63	1.10	0.36	0.37

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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