Howard Runner-Up at 2011 BDO Canadian Open

Coldwater, Ontario

SKIP
Glenn
Howard

Third
Richard
Hart

Second
Brent
Laing

Lead
Craig
Savill

Games:	8
Record:	7W - 1L
PF/G:	9.81
PA/G:	4.15
Hammer Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Defense:	0.04
Force Efficiency:	0.83
Steal Efficiency:	0.23

Glenn Howard (Coldwater, ON) lost 5-4 to Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Howard won 7-3 over Kevin Koe (Edmonton, AB) in the semifinals of the 2011 BDO Canadian Open in Oshawa, Ontario; and won 5-2 over Rob Fowler (Brandon, MB) in the quarterfinals.

Howard finished 5-0 in the 18 team BDO Canadian Open qualifying round, held January 26 - 30, 2011 in , . In their opening game, Howard defeated Mark Bice (Sarnia, ON) 8-2, then won 6-2 against Randy Ferbey (St. Johns, NL) and 9-2 against Don Walchuk (Edmonton, AB). Howard won 6-4 against Pat Simmons (Davidson, SK), then won 7-2 against Bob Ursel (Vernon, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the BDO Canadian Open, Howard take home 0.000 world rankings points along with the $17,500CDN prize, remaining in 2nd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 27 after improving upon their best so far this season. Howard ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 188.640 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	7	1	0	0.875	6-0	1-1	0-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	53	52	22	9.81	4.15	5.66	5.09	3.58	1.93	1.16	1.32

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	23	42	1	2	1-0	5-0	8-0	1.83	0.04	0.67	0.04

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	30	10	21	5	0-0	1-0	1-3	0.33	0.70	0.83	0.23

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