CHAMPION: Nixon Wins 2013 Spruce Grove Cashspiel

SKIP
Amy
Nixon

Third
Nadine
Scotland

Second
Whitney
Eckstrand

Lead
Heather
Rogers

Amy Nixon (Calgary, AB) won 4-2 over Nicky Kaufman (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Spruce Grove Cashspiel, held November 22 - 24, 2013 at the Spruce Grove Curling Club in Spruce Grove, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Nixon won 10-4 over Holly Whyte (Grande Prairie, AB) in the semifinals of the 2013 Spruce Grove Cashspiel in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada; and won 5-4 over EunJung Kim (GyeongBuk, KOR) in the quarterfinals. of the 2013 Spruce Grove Cashspiel in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada;

Nixon finished 2-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nixon lost 5-4 to Whyte, then responded with a 8-3 win over Taylore Theroux (Edmonton, AB). Nixon won 7-4 against Chana Martineau (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Spruce Grove Cashspiel Championship title, Nixon earned 5.200 world rankings points along with the $2,700CDN first prize cheque, moving up 7 spots the World Ranking Standings into 48th place overall with 25.643 total points. Nixon ranks 51st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.990 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	21	18	0	0.538	6-2	4-9	3-6	0-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	296	222	191	7.50	6.45	1.05	4.32	4.32	1.73	1.49	1.35

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	138	171	31	18	6-1	7-1	39-4	1.24	0.22	0.43	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	158	51	160	22	3-2	3-10	6-28	0.32	1.01	0.62	0.19

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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