Homan Wins Meridian Canadian Open

Ottawa, Ontario

SKIP
Rachel
Homan

Third
Emma
Miskew

Second
Joanne
Courtney

Lead
Lisa
Weagle

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	10.00
PA/G:	4.68
Hammer Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Defense:	0.05
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.50

Rachel Homan (Ottawa, ON) won 8-7 over Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Meridian Canadian Open in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. To advance to the championship game, Homan won 6-0 over Chelsea Carey (Calgary, AB) in the semifinals. and won 7-2 over Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS) in the quarterfinals.

Rachel Homan (Ottawa, ON) went 3-1 in the 16 team triple knockout qualifying round. In their opening game, Homan defeated Stefanie Lawton (Saskatoon, SK) 8-2, then won 6-1 against Binia Feltscher (Flims, SUI). Homan lost their next game 7-5 to Alina Paetz (Zurich, SUI). Homan responded with a 7-3 win over Tracy Fleury (Sudbury, NONT) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Meridian Canadian Open Championship title, Homan earned 86.337 world rankings points along with the $25,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 1th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 957.869 total points. Homan ranks 1th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 583.709 points earned so far this season.

--Profile:5824--Week:17--TeamID:86418--Last Year:[|]--Event Count:[|]--Rank:[1|1]--Points:[871.532|957.869|net:86.337]

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	6	1	0	0.857	5-1	1-0	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	47	47	22	10.00	4.68	5.32	6.17	2.77	1.62	1.69	1.06

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	21	28	1	4	0-0	3-0	6-0	1.33	0.05	0.53	0.05

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	26	19	21	1	1-0	0-3	3-3	0.73	0.81	0.50	0.50

2014: Eve Muirhead
Eve Muirhead, Anna Sloan, Vicki Chalmers, Sarah Reid
Stirling, SCO
2015: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON
2017: Casey Scheidegger
Casey Scheidegger, Cary-Anne McTaggart, Jessie Haughian, Stephanie Enright
Lethbridge, AB
2018: Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Carey, Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jocelyn Peterman, Laine Peters
Calgary, AB
2019: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON

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