CHAMPION: Hall Wins 2020 USPORTS - University Curling Championships

SKIP
Matthew
Hall

Third
John
Willsey

Second
Jordie
Lyon-Hatcher

Lead
Graham
Singer

Matthew Hall (Waterloo, ON) won 8-5 over Matthew Manuel (Halifax, NS) in the Final of the USPORTS - University Curling Championships, held March 11 - 15, 2020 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. To advance to the championship game, Hall won 8-4 over Dylan Niepage (Guelph, ON) in the semifinals

Hall finished 7-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hall defeated Niepage 10-5, then won 9-3 against Daniel Bruce (St. John's, NL) and 10-2 against Nicholas Lemieux (St. Catharines, ON). Hall won 10-3 against Mitchell Katcher (Brandon, MB), then won 6-3 against Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) and 6-5 against Ryan Grabarczyk (Regina, SK). Hall won 5-4 against Manuel in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the USPORTS - University Curling Championships Championship title, Hall earned 22.444 world rankings points. For week 34 of the event schedule, Hall did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Hall ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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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