CHAMPION: Brandwood Wins 2022 Home Again Curling Classic

SKIP
Chelsea
Brandwood

Third
Brenda
Chapman

Second
Riley
Sandham

Lead
Hilary
Huddleston

Chelsea Brandwood (Listowel, ON) won 8-4 over Breanna Rozon (Mississauga, ON) in the Final of the Home Again Curling Classic, held November 26 - 28, 2022 in Listowel, Ontario. To advance to the championship game, Brandwood won 9-6 over Bella Croisier (Sudbury, NONT) in the semifinals of the 2022 Home Again Curling Classic in Listowel, Ontario; and won 5-2 over Krysta Burns (Sudbury, NONT) in the quarterfinals.

Brandwood finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brandwood defeated Rozon 7-6, then won 5-4 against Isabelle Ladouceur (Waterloo, ON) and 10-2 against Julia Bakos (London, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Home Again Curling Classic Championship title, Brandwood earned 22.500 world rankings points along with the $3,500CDN first prize cheque, moving up 25 spots the World Ranking Standings into 66th place overall with 47.285 total points. Brandwood ranks 67th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 28.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	14	11	0	0.560	4-3	1-5	3-1	0-0	2-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	184	151	130	8.21	7.07	1.14	5.22	3.97	1.57	1.78	0.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	91	97	36	11	2-3	4-1	24-3	1.07	0.40	0.38	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	93	54	94	4	2-1	0-9	11-19	0.58	1.01	0.44	0.40

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