CHAMPION: Mathis Wins 2016 Dumfries Challenger Series

Fourth
Lara
Stocker

SKIP
Alisha
Mathis

Second
Chantale
Widmer

Lead
Larissa
Berchtold

Alisha Mathis (Schauffhausen, SUI) won 7-6 over Sophie Jackson (Dumfries, SCO) in the Final of the Dumfries Challenger Series, held December 15 - 18, 2016 in Dumfries, Scotland.

Mathis finished 3-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mathis lost 8-8 to Karina Aitken (Stirling, SCO), then responded with a 8-6 win over Lisa Gisler (Bern, SUI). Mathis went on to lose 9-5 against Melanie Barbezat (Biel, SUI). Mathis responded with a 10-2 win over Jasmin Lander (Hvidovre, DEN). Mathis won 6-2 against Jackson in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Dumfries Challenger Series Championship title, Mathis earned 0.000 world rankings points along with the $3,332CDN first prize cheque. For week 18 of the event schedule, Mathis did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 205th to 211th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 3.348 total points. Mathis ranks 197th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.236 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

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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