CHAMPION: Kelly Wins 2023 New Brunswick Scotties

SKIP
Andrea
Kelly

Third
Sylvie
Quillian

Second
Jill
Brothers

Lead
Katie
Vandenborre

Andrea Kelly (Oromocto, NB) won 10-5 over Abby Burgess (Oromocto, NB) in the Final Kelly advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the New Brunswick Scotties, held January 19 - 22, 2023 in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Kelly finished 6-0 in the 7-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kelly defeated Shaelyn Park (Moncton, NB) 8-1, then won 9-0 against Shelly Graham (Fredericton, NB) and 10-5 against Burgess. Kelly won 9-2 against Sarah Gaines (Oromocton, NB), then won 13-1 against Samantha Crook (Sackville, NB) and 6-2 against Jaclyn Crandall (Fredericton, NB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the New Brunswick Scotties Championship title, Kelly earned 7.500 world rankings points. For week 25 of the event schedule, Kelly did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 24th to 27th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 117.962 total points. Kelly ranks 31st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 87.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	35	16	0	0.686	3-1	4-6	4-0	1-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	396	346	227	8.74	5.73	3.01	5.10	3.91	1.71	1.46	0.98

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	185	219	54	18	7-0	17-1	36-9	1.18	0.29	0.36	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	211	127	173	21	2-1	11-10	21-38	0.60	0.82	0.56	0.37

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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