CHAMPION: Deane Wins 2025 SGI Canada Best of the West

SKIP
Connor
Deane

Third
Matthew
McCrady

Second
Josh
Miki

Lead
Connor
Kent

Connor Deane (New Westminster, BC) won 9-4 over Jacob Libbus (Black Diamond, AB) in the Final of the SGI Canada Best of the West, held April 24 - 27, 2025 at the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon, Canada. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Deane won 8-0 over Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB) to advance to the championship game. of the 2025 SGI Canada Best of the West in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; of the 2025 SGI Canada Best of the West in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Deane finished 5-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Deane defeated Brett Walter (Winnipeg, MB) 9-1, then won 7-6 against Tao and 8-6 against Logan Ede (Saskatoon, SK). Deane won 7-1 against Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB), then won 8-3 against Devon Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the SGI Canada Best of the West Championship title, Deane earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $10,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 26 spots the World Ranking Standings into 68th place overall with 44.063 total points. Deane ranks 68th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 44.063 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	19	20	0	0.487	1-3	0-2	0-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	293	208	201	7.10	6.86	0.24	4.30	4.30	1.65	1.60	1.40

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	151	157	50	20	4-1	8-1	30-10	1.04	0.33	0.32	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	142	51	151	21	2-3	5-9	5-32	0.36	1.06	0.52	0.21

2025: Connor Deane
Connor Deane, Matthew McCrady, Josh Miki, Connor Kent
New Westminster, BC
2024: Ryan Wiebe
Ryan Wiebe, Ty Dilello, Sean Flatt, Adam Flatt
Winnipeg, MB
2023: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Kyle Doering, Glenn Venance, Kurtis Goller
Edmonton, AB
2022: Rylan Kleiter
Rylan Kleiter, Joshua Mattern, Trevor Johnson, Matthieu Taillon, Steve Laycock
Saskatoon, SK

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