CHAMPION: MacKenzie Wins 2016 Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel

SKIP
Doug
MacKenzie

Third
Richard
Barker

Second
Martin
Gavin

Lead
Sean
Audas

Doug MacKenzie (Halifax, NS) won 4-3 over Scott Saunders (Halifax, NS) in the Final of the Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel, held November 25 - 27, 2016 in Windsor, Nova Scotia. To advance to the championship game, MacKenzie won 9-6 over Mike Callaghan (Halifax, NS) in the semifinals of the 2016 Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel in Windsor, Nova Scotia; and won 6-4 over Trevor Archibald (Halifax, NS) in the quarterfinals. of the 2016 Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel in Windsor, Nova Scotia;

MacKenzie finished 2-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, MacKenzie defeated Nick Hilton (Halifax, NS) 1-0, then won 5-4 against Brent MacDougall (Halfiax, NS). MacKenzie went on to lose 7-2 against Tony Moore (Halifax, NS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel Championship title, MacKenzie earned 9.592 world rankings points along with the $1,200CDN first prize cheque, moving up 35 spots the World Ranking Standings into 168th place overall with 23.603 total points. MacKenzie ranks 166th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.592 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2015: Stuart Thompson
Stuart Thompson, Colten Steele, Travis Colter, Alex MacNeil
Halifax, NS
2016: Doug MacKenzie
Doug MacKenzie, Richard Barker, Martin Gavin, Sean Audas
Halifax, NS
2017: Kendal Thompson
Kendal Thompson, Bryce Everist, Jamie Danbrook, Jared Brown
Halifax, NS

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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