Montgomery Runner-Up at Major Welding Abbotsford Cashspiel

Victoria, British Columbia

SKIP
Jason
Montgomery

Third
Chris
Baier

Second
Miles
Craig

Lead
Troy
Cowan

Games:	6
Record:	3W - 3L
PF/G:	8.25
PA/G:	6.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.36
Steal Defense:	0.24
Force Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Efficiency:	0.39

Jason Montgomery (Victoria, BC) lost 6-3 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final of the Major Welding Abbotsford Cashspiel, held November 21 - 23 at the Abbotsford Curling Club in Abbotsford, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Montgomery won 10-2 over Cameron de Jong (Victoria, BC) in the semifinals of the Major Welding Abbotsford Cashspiel in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada; and won 9-2 over Tyler Powell (Calgary, AB) in the quarterfinals. of the Major Welding Abbotsford Cashspiel in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada;

Montgomery finished in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Major Welding Abbotsford Cashspiel, Montgomery take home 11.000 world rankings points along with the $4,000CDN prize, moving up 16 spots the World Ranking Standings into 72nd place overall with 39.111 total points. Montgomery ranks 66th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 29.900 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	17	6	0	0.739	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
2026	169	164	99	9.70	5.86	3.85	5.03	3.67	1.93	1.60	1.30

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	78	120	18	10	6-0	14-2	17-3	1.54	0.23	0.54	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	91	44	81	12	1-1	1-5	11-17	0.48	0.89	0.55	0.31

2025: Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2024: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Haruto Ouchi, Shinya Abe, Minori Suzuki, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Jason Montgomery
Jason Montgomery, Cameron de Jong, Miles Craig, William Duggan
Victoria, BC
2016: John Morris
Jim Cotter, John Morris, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC
2002: Pat Ryan
Jim Cotter, John Morris, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
, BC
2001: Pat Ryan
Pat Ryan
, BC
2000: Doug Wilcock
Pat Ryan
New Westminster, BC
1999: Rick Folk
Rick Folk, Jeff Richard, Tyler Orme, Gerry Richard
Kelowna, BC
1998: Greg McAulay
Greg McAulay, Brent Pierce, Bryan Miki, Darin Fenton
New Westminster, BC
1994: Jim Armstrong
Jim Armstrong
Vancouver, BC
1992: Steve Skillings
Steve Skillings, Mike Wood, Sean Cromarty, Colin Atkinson
Victoria, BC

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