CHAMPION: Koe Wins 2013 Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic

Calgary, Alberta

SKIP
Kevin
Koe

Third
Pat
Simmons

Second
Carter
Rycroft

Lead
Nolan
Thiessen

Games:	5
Record:	5W - 0L
PF/G:	8.42
PA/G:	4.74
Hammer Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Defense:	0.19
Force Efficiency:	0.60
Steal Efficiency:	0.29

Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) won 6-5 over Brady Clark (Lynnwood, WA) in the Final of the Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic, held October 4 - 7, 2013 at the Vernon Curling Club in Vernon, Canada. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Koe won 5-4 over Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) to advance to the championship game. of the 2013 Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada;

Koe finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Koe defeated Ken McArdle (New Westminster, BC) 9-2, then won 6-3 against Clark and 6-4 against Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic Championship title, Koe earned 15.600 world rankings points along with the $7,500CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 3rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 278.600 total points. Koe ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 60.600 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	72	32	0	0.692	38-14	27-17	13-8	5-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	839	654	495	7.80	5.90	1.90	4.72	3.98	1.65	1.48	1.30

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	414	512	77	52	10-1	35-1	114-7	1.24	0.19	0.44	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	425	142	418	57	5-5	3-25	21-84	0.33	0.98	0.58	0.23

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