Einarson Runner-Up at 2023 KIOTI Tractor Champions Cup

SKIP
Kerri
Einarson

Third
Val
Sweeting

Second
Shannon
Birchard

Lead
Dawn
McEwen

Kerri Einarson (Gimli, MB) lost 6-5 to Rachel Homan (Ottawa, ON) in the Final of the KIOTI Tractor Champions Cup, held May 2 - 7, 2023 in Regina, Saskatchewan. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Einarson won 12-0 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) to advance to the championship game. of the 2023 KIOTI Tractor Champions Cup in Regina, Saskatchewan;

Einarson finished 3-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Einarson defeated Isabelle Ladouceur (Waterloo, ON) 7-4, then won 7-3 against Clancy Grandy (Vancouver, BC) and 6-1 against Eun ji Gim (Uijeongbu, KOR). Einarson went on to lose 7-4 against Kaitlyn Lawes (Winnipeg, MB). Einarson lost 9-4 to Fujisawa in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the KIOTI Tractor Champions Cup, Einarson take home 49.500 world rankings points along with the $18,000CDN prize, remaining in 1st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 24 after improving upon their best so far this season. Einarson ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 451.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	64	26	0	0.711	23-3	11-8	6-4	5-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	733	641	455	8.74	6.21	2.54	4.99	4.11	1.75	1.51	0.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	353	462	82	34	12-4	29-1	107-5	1.31	0.23	0.46	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	380	179	373	32	5-7	12-20	29-73	0.47	0.98	0.58	0.29

2023: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes
Ottawa, ON
2022: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris
Gimli, MB
2021: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes, Joanne Courtney, Laura Walker, Randy Ferbey
Ottawa, ON
2019: Silvana Tirinzoni
Alina Paetz, Silvana Tirinzoni, Esther Neuenschwander, Melanie Barbezat , Peter Gallant
Aarau, SUI
2018: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON
2017: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON
2016: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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