Sandham/Craig Reaches 2023 St. Thomas Mixed Doubles Classic Quarters

Riley Sandham/Brendan Craig (Guelph, ON) qualified for the 2023 St. Thomas Mixed Doubles Classic playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 8-7 against Lori Eddy/Scott McDonald (St. Thomas, ON).

Sandham/Craig finished 5-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sandham/Craig defeated Anneka Burghout/Marty Thompson (Toronto, ON) 6-4, then won 10-3 against Manon Paquette/David Daoust (Sudbury, NONT) and 8-3 against Olivia Forster/Kyle Forster (Elmira, ON). Sandham/Craig won 1-0 against Heather Heggestad/Cory Heggestad (Stroud, ON), then won 9-2 against Casandra Spruit/Geoff Spruit (Winchester, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Sandham/Craig earned 6.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the St. Thomas Mixed Doubles Classic. Sandham/Craig move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of -6.374 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 35th overall with 55.126 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sandham/Craig ranks 25th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 36.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	40	17	0	0.702	8-4	2-2	5-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	399	414	283	10.38	7.09	3.28	5.69	4.24	1.82	1.67	0.08

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	182	255	71	0	17-0	17-3	34-12	1.40	0.39	0.37	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	217	159	212	3	5-9	9-18	28-30	0.73	0.98	0.51	0.45

Canada's Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant (Photo: World Curling) took down the reigning gold medalists to stay on pace for top spot in the pool.

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