CHAMPION: Howard Wins 2017 Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Glenn
Howard

Third
Richard
Hart

Second
David
Mathers

Lead
Scott
Howard

Glenn Howard (Toronto, ON) won 8-6 over Wayne Tuck Jr. (Brantford, ON) in the Final of the Ontario Tankard, held January 27 - February 5, 2017 in Cobourg, Ontario.

Howard finished 6-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Howard defeated Cory Heggestad (Stroud, ON) 8-3, then won 11-6 against Tuck Jr. and 7-3 against Dayna Deruelle (Kingston, ON). Howard won 8-6 against Mark Bice (Sarnia, ON), then won 7-5 against Scott Bailey (Dundas, ON). Howard went on to lose 9-8 against Mike Harris (Toronton, ON). Howard lost 6-5 to Greg Balsdon (Kingston, ON). Howard lost 8-6 to John Epping (Toronto, ON) where Howard responded with a 9-2 win over Codey Maus (London, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ontario Tankard Championship title, Howard earned 30.576 world rankings points, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 14th place overall with 402.031 total points. Howard ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 178.349 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

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