CHAMPION: Sinclair Wins 2018 USA Women's National Championship

SKIP
Jamie
Sinclair

Third
Alexandra
Agre

Second
Vicky
Persinger

Lead
Monica
Walker

Jamie Sinclair (Blaine, USA) won 6-5 over Cory Christensen (Blaine, USA) in the Final Sinclair advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the USA Women's National Championship, held March 3 - 10, 2018 in Fargo, North Dakota.

Sinclair finished 7-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sinclair defeated Emily Anderson (Broomall, PA) 6-3, then won 5-1 against Kim Rhyme (Blaine, MN) and 10-6 against Cora Farrell (Blaine, MN). Sinclair won 8-3 against Christine McMakin (St. Paul, MN), then won 7-4 against Beth Podoll (Fargo, ND) and 8-5 against Christensen. Sinclair won 8-1 against Ann Podoll (Fargo, ND) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the USA Women's National Championship Championship title, Sinclair earned 18.753 world rankings points. Sinclair move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 4.954 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 16th overall with 403.911 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sinclair ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 233.935 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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