CHAMPION: Black Wins 2025 Ocean Contractors Nova Scotia Womens Curling Championship

SKIP
Christina
Black

Third
Jill
Brothers

Second
Jenn
Baxter

Lead
Karlee
Everist

Christina Black (Halifax, NS) won 6-4 over Mackenzie Mitchell (Halifax, NS) in the Final Black advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Ocean Contractors Nova Scotia Womens Curling Championship, held January 14 - 19, 2025 at the Halifax Curling Club in Halifax, Canada.

Black finished 6-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Black defeated Mitchell 9-3, then won 7-4 against Mary Myketyn-Driscoll (Halifax, NS) and 8-3 against Nova Scotia's Rebecca Regan. Black won 10-3 against Tanya Hilliard (Halifax, NS), then won 10-3 against Kristen MacDiarmid (Halifax , NS) and 9-4 against Allyson MacNutt (Halifax, NS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ocean Contractors Nova Scotia Womens Curling Championship Championship title, Black earned 11.250 world rankings points, remaining in 17th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 3.937 after improving upon their best so far this season. Black ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 145.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	51	13	0	0.797	7-2	6-4	5-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	498	450	290	9.04	5.82	3.21	5.22	3.96	1.73	1.47	0.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	241	327	57	20	10-0	24-2	72-8	1.36	0.24	0.48	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	257	123	233	21	3-2	5-14	20-46	0.48	0.91	0.59	0.33

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