CHAMPION: Crawford Wins 2018 Lady Monctonian Invitational Spiel

SKIP
Andrea
Kelly

Third
Jillian
Babin

Second
Jennifer
Armstrong

Lead
Katie
Vandenborre

Andrea Crawford (Fredericton, NB) won 8-7 over Mary-Anne Arsenault (Halifax, NS) in the Final of the Lady Monctonian Invitational Spiel, held October 19 - 21, 2018 in Moncton, New Brunswick. To advance to the championship game, Crawford won 5-1 over Colleen Jones (Halifax, NS) in the semifinals of the 2018 Lady Monctonian Invitational Spiel in Moncton, New Brunswick; and won 7-1 over Sylvie Robichaud (Moncton , NB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 Lady Monctonian Invitational Spiel in Moncton, New Brunswick;

Crawford finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Crawford lost 6-5 to Suzanne Birt (Charlottetown, PEI), then responded with a 10-1 win over Nancy McConnery (Halifax, NS). Crawford won 6-5 against Mary Myketyn-Driscoll (Halifax, NS), then won 4-2 against Tanya Hilliard (Dartmouth, NS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Lady Monctonian Invitational Spiel Championship title, Crawford earned 23.250 world rankings points along with the $1,800CDN first prize cheque. Crawford move up 17 spots after posting a net gain of 19.178 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 56th overall with 69.096 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Crawford ranks 50th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 36.521 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

2022: Suzanne Birt
Suzanne Birt, Marie Christianson, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle Shea
Summerside, PEI
2021: Andrea Kelly
Andrea Kelly, Sylvie Quillian, Jillian Babin, Katie Vandenborre, Justine Comeau
Fredericton, NB
2019: Andrea Kelly
Andrea Kelly, Jennifer Armstrong, Jillian Babin, Katie Vandenborre, Leah Thomson
Fredericton, NB
2018: Andrea Kelly
Andrea Kelly, Jillian Babin, Jennifer Armstrong, Katie Vandenborre
Fredericton, NB
2017: Theresa Breen
Theresa Breen, Marlee Powers, Jocelyn Adams-Moss, Amanda England
Halifax, NS
2016: Jill Brothers
Jill Brothers, Erin Carmody, Blisse Joyce, Jennifer Brine, Sarah Murphy
Halifax, NS
2015: Mary Mattatall
Mary Mattatall, Marg Cutcliffe, Jill Alcoe-Holland, Andrea Saulnier
Halifax, NS
2014: Kelly Backman
Kelly Backman, Kristen MacDiarmid, Jennifer Crouse, Karlee Everist
Dartmouth, NS

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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