CHAMPION: Howard Wins 2023 Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic

SKIP
Glenn
Howard

Third
Scott
Howard

Second
David
Mathers

Lead
Tim
March

Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene, ON) won 5-3 over John Shuster (Duluth, MN) in the Final of the Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic, held November 30 - December 4, 2023 at the Penticton Curling Club in Penticton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Howard won 10-4 over Brendan Bottcher (Calgary, AB) in the semifinals of the 2023 Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada; and won 7-6 over Aaron Sluchinski (Airdrie, AB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada;

Howard finished 4-1 in the 30-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Howard defeated Catlin Schneider (Victoria, BC) 7-2, then won 8-3 against Dave Belway (Penticton, BC). Howard went on to lose 5-4 against Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB). Howard responded with a 9-2 win over Neil Dangerfield (Victoria, BC). Howard won 7-4 against Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic Championship title, Howard earned 45.000 world rankings points along with the $20,000CDN first prize cheque. Howard move up 13 spots after posting a net gain of 35.125 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 34th overall with 112.751 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Howard ranks 32nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 83.126 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	29	20	0	0.592	6-5	5-8	0-5	0-0	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	377	295	228	7.82	6.05	1.78	4.51	4.06	1.74	1.49	1.43

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	191	229	40	32	6-0	19-1	40-6	1.20	0.21	0.41	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	186	66	188	22	2-6	4-10	8-27	0.35	1.01	0.64	0.23

2023: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Scott Howard, David Mathers, Tim March
Penetanguishene, ON
2021: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Glen Muirhead
Glen Muirhead, Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Cameron Smith
Perth, SCO
2017: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

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