CHAMPION: Hunt Wins 2017 Thistle Integrity Stakes

SKIP
Andrew
Hunt

Third
Dillon
Bednarek

Second
Mitch
Einarson

Lead
Bryan
Galbraith

Andrew Hunt (Winnipeg, MB) won 5-4 over William Lyburn (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Thistle Integrity Stakes, held December 1 - 4, 2017 at the Thistle Curling Club in Winnipeg, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Hunt won 6-4 over JT Ryan (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2017 Thistle Integrity Stakes in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; and won 6-5 over Hayden Forrester (winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2017 Thistle Integrity Stakes in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;

Hunt finished 4-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hunt lost 5-2 to Manitoba's Jordan Smith, then responded with a 7-0 win over Richard Muntain (Pinawa, MB). Hunt went on to lose 7-3 against Lyburn. Hunt responded with a 6-5 win over Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB). Hunt won 1-0 against Tucker Smith (Bismarck, ND), then won 8-2 against Sean Grassie (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Thistle Integrity Stakes Championship title, Hunt earned 18.297 world rankings points along with the $1,300CDN first prize cheque, moving up 241 spots the World Ranking Standings into 179th place overall with 20.002 total points. Hunt ranks 115th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 20.002 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

2023: Brett Walter
Brett Walter, JT Ryan, Graham McFarlane, Hugh McFarlane
Winnipeg, MB
2022: Corey Chambers
Corey Chambers, Daley Peters, Julien Leduc, Brendan Bilawka
Winnipeg, MB
2019: Sean Grassie
Sean Grassie, Tyler Drews, Daryl Evans, Rodney Legault
Winnipeg, MB
2018: Braden Calvert
Braden Calvert, Kyle Kurz, Ian McMillan, Rob Gordon
Winnipeg, MB
2017: Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt, Dillon Bednarek, Mitch Einarson, Bryan Galbraith
Winnipeg, MB
2016: Trevor Loreth
Brad Haight, Trevor Loreth, Ryan Lowdon, Brett Cawson
Winnipeg, MB
2014: Sean Grassie
Sean Grassie, Corey Chambers, Kody Janzen, Stuart Shiells
Winnipeg, MB
2006: Randy Neufeld
Randy Neufeld, Corey Anderson, Rick Cramer, Scott Podolski
, MB
2005: Peter Nicholls
Peter Nicholls, Dean Dunstone, Travis Graham, Wayne Sigurdson
Winnipeg, MB
2004: Dennis Bohn
David Bohn, Dennis Bohn, Bryan Galbraith, Cory Wolchuk
Winnipeg, MB

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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