CHAMPION: St-Georges Wins 2023 Bogside Cup

SKIP
Laurie
St-Georges

Third
Jamie
Sinclair

Second
Emily
Riley

Lead
Kelly
Middaugh

Laurie St-Georges (Montreal, QC) won 7-5 over Tanya Hilliard (Halifax, NS) in the Final of the Bogside Cup, held December 8 - 10, 2023 at the Montague Curling Club in Montague, Canada. To advance to the championship game, St-Georges won 9-2 over Sophie Blades (Summerside/Cornwall, PEI) in the semifinals of the 2023 Bogside Cup in Montague, Prince Edward Island, Canada; and won 8-1 over Jane DiCarlo (Crapaud, PEI) in the quarterfinals.

St-Georges finished 4-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, St-Georges defeated Sydney Carver (Montague, PEI) 9-3, then won 8-6 against Amanda Power (Crapaud, PEI) and 7-2 against Hilliard. St-Georges won 7-2 against Tammy Dewar (Charlottetown, PEI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Bogside Cup Championship title, St-Georges earned 11.250 world rankings points along with the $3,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 49th place overall with 64.844 total points. St-Georges ranks 45th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 51.813 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	32	19	0	0.627	9-5	3-7	1-2	0-1	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	375	322	246	8.59	6.56	2.03	4.75	4.45	1.81	1.47	0.80

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	194	231	76	16	9-0	21-2	36-17	1.19	0.39	0.37	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	181	91	170	14	5-2	3-10	15-32	0.50	0.94	0.61	0.30

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