CHAMPION: Marks Wins 2024 SGI Canada Best of the West

SKIP
Abby
Marks

Third
Elysa
Crough

Second
Kim
Bonneau

Lead
Julianna
Mackenzie

Abby Marks (Edmonton, AB) won 6-2 over Kayla Skrlik (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the SGI Canada Best of the West, held April 4 - 7, 2024 at the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Marks won 5-3 over Taylor Reese-Hansen (Victoria, BC) in the semifinals of the 2024 SGI Canada Best of the West in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Marks finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Marks lost 8-1 to Emily Cherwinski (Winnipeg, MB), then responded with a 6-5 win over Reese-Hansen. Marks won 8-2 against Bailey Kozma (Regina, SK), then won 8-5 against Serena Gray-Withers (Edmonton, AB) and 6-3 against Gracelyn Richards (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the SGI Canada Best of the West Championship title, Marks earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $8,000CDN first prize cheque. Marks move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 14.25 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 37th overall with 92.313 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Marks ranks 37th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 92.313 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	41	28	0	0.594	5-2	7-5	2-4	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	518	416	326	8.03	6.29	1.74	4.77	3.96	1.68	1.59	1.27

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	244	301	64	28	12-3	17-2	57-5	1.23	0.26	0.40	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	274	115	262	38	1-3	7-16	21-62	0.42	0.96	0.49	0.28

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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