CHAMPION: Montgomery Wins 2017 Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel

Victoria, British Columbia

SKIP
Jason
Montgomery

Third
Cameron
de Jong

Second
Miles
Craig

Lead
William
Duggan

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	7.17
PA/G:	6.52
Hammer Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Defense:	0.05
Force Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Efficiency:	0.15

Jason Montgomery (Victoria, BC) won 5-3 over Sean Geall (Kelowna, BC) in the Final of the Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel, held November 24 - 26, 2017 at the Abbotsford Curling Club in Abbotsford, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Montgomery won 6-4 over Brent Pierce (New Westminster , BC) in the semifinals of the 2017 Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada; and won 6-5 over Dean Joanisse (Maple Ridge, BC) in the quarterfinals. of the 2017 Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada;

Montgomery finished 2-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Montgomery defeated British Columbia's Neil Dangerfield 7-6, then went on to lose 8-2 against Joanisse. Montgomery responded with a 7-4 win over Mark Longworth (Vernon, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel Championship title, Montgomery earned 19.746 world rankings points along with the $6,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 178 spots the World Ranking Standings into 157th place overall with 24.463 total points. Montgomery ranks 110th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 19.746 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

2024: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
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

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