CHAMPION: Martin Wins 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic

SKIP
Kevin
Martin

Third
David
Nedohin

Second
Marc
Kennedy

Lead
Ben
Hebert

Kevin Martin (Edmonton, AB) won 6-5 over Brock Virtue (Regina, SK) in the Final of the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, held October 11 - 14, 2013 at the Crestwood Curling Club in Edmonton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Martin won 5-4 over Tom Appelman (Edmonton, AB) in the semifinals of the 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and won 6-2 over Rob Fowler (Brandon, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Martin finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Martin defeated Matt Willerton (Edmonton, AB) 9-1, then won 7-3 against Dean Ross (Edmonton, AB) and 8-2 against Brent Pierce (New Westminster, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic Championship title, Martin earned 17.250 world rankings points along with the $13,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 8th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 195.213 total points. Martin ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 71.600 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	57	18	0	0.760	33-9	17-8	14-4	3-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	564	435	335	7.71	5.94	1.77	4.70	3.88	1.64	1.53	1.42

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	275	352	48	34	11-0	22-4	68-3	1.28	0.17	0.42	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	289	83	287	46	1-7	4-6	11-71	0.29	0.99	0.54	0.21

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