CHAMPION: Gushue Wins 2024 Montana's Brier

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Mark
Nichols

Second
E.J.
Harnden

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St.John's, CAN) won 9-5 over Mike McEwen (Saskatoon, SK) in the Final of the Montana's Brier, held March 1 - 10, 2024 in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Gushue finished 6-2 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gushue defeated Matthew Manuel (Halifax, NS) 7-4, then went on to lose 7-6 against McEwen. Gushue responded with a 9-7 win over Jean-Michel Arsenault (Levis, QC). Gushue went on to lose 7-5 against Jamie Koe (Yellowknife, NT). Gushue responded with a 8-3 win over Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). Gushue won 8-3 against Shane Latimer (Iqaluit, NU), then won 11-3 against Tyler Smith (Crapaud, PEI) and 10-4 against Aaron Sluchinski (Airdrie, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Montana's Brier Championship title, Gushue earned 67.500 world rankings points. Gushue move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 48.375 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 6th overall with 286.750 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Gushue ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 286.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	44	16	0	0.733	13-3	4-2	2-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	465	394	236	8.47	5.08	3.40	4.92	3.61	1.72	1.40	1.46

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	219	289	38	31	7-1	25-1	58-4	1.32	0.17	0.48	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	246	105	198	37	0-1	5-5	25-46	0.43	0.80	0.63	0.28

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