CHAMPION: Morris Wins 2016 Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel

Fourth
Jim
Cotter

SKIP
John
Morris

Second
Tyrel
Griffith

Lead
Rick
Sawatsky

John Morris (Vernon, BC) won 7-3 over Ken McArdle (Victoria, BC) in the Final of the Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel, held November 25 - 27, 2016 at the Abbotsford Curling Club in Abbotsford, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Morris won 9-1 over Sean Geall (Kelowna, BC) in the semifinals of the 2016 Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada; and won 9-6 over Adam Cseke (Kelowna, BC) in the quarterfinals. of the 2016 Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada;

Morris finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morris defeated Jeff Guignard (Vancouver, BC) 7-3, then won 9-3 against Grant Dezura (Maple Ridge, BC) and 9-4 against Northern Ontario's Dylan Johnston in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel Championship title, Morris earned 17.540 world rankings points along with the $6,000CDN first prize cheque, dropping 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 11th place overall with 390.408 total points. Morris ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 173.443 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: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Haruto Ouchi, Shinya Abe, Minori Suzuki, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Jason Montgomery
Jason Montgomery, Cameron de Jong, Miles Craig, William Duggan
Victoria, BC
2016: John Morris
Jim Cotter, John Morris, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC
2002: Pat Ryan
Jim Cotter, John Morris, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
, BC
2001: Pat Ryan
Pat Ryan
, BC
2000: Doug Wilcock
Pat Ryan
New Westminster, BC
1999: Rick Folk
Rick Folk, Jeff Richard, Tyler Orme, Gerry Richard
Kelowna, BC
1998: Greg McAulay
Greg McAulay, Brent Pierce, Bryan Miki, Darin Fenton
New Westminster, BC
1994: Jim Armstrong
Jim Armstrong
Vancouver, BC
1992: Steve Skillings
Steve Skillings, Mike Wood, Sean Cromarty, Colin Atkinson
Victoria, BC

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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