CHAMPION: Joanisse Wins 2022 Twin Anchors Houseboats Classic

SKIP
Dean
Joanisse

Third
Grant
Dezura

Second
Brendan
Willis

Lead
Dave
Stephenson

Dean Joanisse (Maple Ridge, BC) won 8-4 over Sean Geall (New Westminster, BC) in the Final of the Twin Anchors Houseboats Classic, held November 11 - 13, 2022 in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. To advance to the championship game, Joanisse won 7-4 over Mark Longworth (Vernon, BC) in the semifinals

Joanisse finished 4-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Joanisse defeated Longworth 8-6, then went on to lose 6-5 against Rob Nobert (VERNON, BC). Joanisse responded with a 6-1 win over Chris Medford (Kimberley, BC). Joanisse won 9-2 against Dave Belway (Salmon Arm, BC), then won 6-5 against Nobert in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Twin Anchors Houseboats Classic Championship title, Joanisse earned 7.500 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN first prize cheque. For week 15 of the event schedule, Joanisse did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Joanisse 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

2021: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Tyrel Griffith, Andrew Nerpin, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC
2003: Darren Smale
Darren Smale, Tobin Senum, John Maskiewich, Lance Yamada
Kamloops, BC
2002: Rick Folk
Rick Folk
, BC
2001: Dave Stephenson
Dave Stephenson
, BC
2000: Cory Heggestad
Dave Stephenson
Kamloops, BC

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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