CHAMPION: Fesser Wins Crestwood Ladies Fall Classic

SKIP
Kourtney
Fesser

Third
Natalie
Yanko

Second
Krista
Fesser

Lead
Karlee
Korchinski

Kourtney Fesser (Saskatoon, SK) won 5-3 over Krysta Hilker (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Crestwood Ladies Fall Classic, held November 8 - 11, 2018 in Edmonton, Alberta. To advance to the championship game, Fesser won 8-3 over 's Rhonda Varnes in the semifinals of the Crestwood Ladies Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta;

Fesser finished 4-0 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Fesser defeated Nicky Kaufman (Edmonton, AB) 7-1, then won 13-3 against Adele Kezama (Edmonton, AB) and 7-2 against Ashton Simard (Edmonton, AB). Fesser won 8-2 against 's Ocean Smart in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Crestwood Ladies Fall Classic Championship title, Fesser earned 18.945 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 15 spots the World Ranking Standings into 58th place overall with 71.879 total points. Fesser ranks 51st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 45.877 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

2014: Un-Chi Gim
Eun ji Gim, Seul-Bee Lee, Min-Ji Um, Yoon-Jung Yeom
Gyeonggi-Do, KOR
2015: Kristen Streifel
Kristen Streifel, Danielle Schmiemann, Kate Goodhelpsen, Jesse Marlow
Edmonton, AB
2016: Nadine Scotland
Nadine Scotland, Heather Jensen, Becca Hebert, Heather Rogers
, AB
2017: Victoria Moiseeva
Victoria Moiseeva, Uliana Vasilyeva, Galina Arsenkina, Julia Guzieva, Julia Portunova
St. Petersburg, RUS
2018: Kourtney Fesser
Kourtney Fesser, Natalie Yanko, Krista Fesser, Karlee Korchinski
Saskatoon, SK

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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