CHAMPION: Jones Wins 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts

SKIP
Jennifer
Jones

Third
Shannon
Birchard

Second
Jill
Officer

Lead
Dawn
McEwen

Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, MB) won 8-6 over Kerri Einarson (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, held January 27 - February 4, 2018 in Penticton, British Columbia.

Jones finished 9-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jones defeated Sherry Anderson (Saskatoon, SK) 12-5, then won 14-1 against Chelsea Duncan (Whitehorse, YK) and 11-5 against Mary-Anne Arsenault (Dartmouth, NS). Jones won 12-4 against Kerry Galusha (Yellowknife, NT), then won 7-4 against Sylvie Robichaud (Moncton, NB). Jones went on to lose 9-5 against Tracy Fleury (Sudbury, NONT). Jones lost 9-4 to Einarson where Jones responded with a 10-3 win over Kesa Van Osch (Nanaimo, BC). Jones won 11-3 against Hollie Duncan (Toronto, ON), then won 6-2 against Casey Scheidegger (Grande Prairie, AB) and 10-4 against Michelle Englot (Winnipeg, CAN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Championship title, Jones earned 62.843 world rankings points. For week 26 of the event schedule, Jones did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Jones ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

2024: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes, Rachel Brown, Don Bartlett
Ottawa, ON
2023: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris , Reid Carruthers
Gimli, CAN
2022: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris , Reid Carruthers
Gimli, CAN
2020: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris, Jennifer Clark-Rouire
Gimli, MB
2019: Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Carey, Sarah Wilkes, Dana Ferguson, Rachel Brown
Calgary, AB
2018: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Shannon Birchard, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen, Kaitlyn Lawes
Winnipeg, MB

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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