CHAMPION: Mulima Wins 2024 U21 Ontario Provincials

SKIP
Kibo
Mulima

Third
Owen
Henry

Second
Kyle
Stratton

Lead
Matt
Duzier

Kibo Mulima (Guelph, ON) won 8-4 over Tyler MacTavish (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON) in the Final Mulima advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the U21 Ontario Provincials, held February 28 - March 2, 2024 at the Dundas Valley Golf and Curling Club in Dundas, Canada.

Mulima finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mulima defeated Ryan Hastings (Oshawa, ON) 12-3, then won 12-3 against Aaron Benning (Ottawa, ON) and 8-3 against Wyatt Wright (Hamilton, ON). Mulima won 10-6 against MacTavish, then won 6-5 against Evan MacDougall (Hamilton, ON) and 9-3 against Sonny DiFranco (Ottawa, ON). Mulima went on to lose 7-5 against Noah Garner (Ottawa, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the U21 Ontario Provincials Championship title, Mulima earned 3.750 world rankings points, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 104th place overall with 22.250 total points. Mulima ranks 104th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	19	13	0	0.594	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	237	202	152	8.52	6.41	2.11	4.73	4.01	1.80	1.60	1.27

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	117	134	51	15	6-2	8-3	29-5	1.15	0.44	0.42	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	120	68	101	15	1-1	4-10	13-17	0.57	0.84	0.54	0.37

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