CHAMPION: Ginter Wins 2018 Peace Tour Championship

SKIP
Jeff
Ginter

Third
Mark
Heartt

Second
Kevin
Turner

Lead
Glen
Roszmann

Jeff Ginter (Dawson Creek, BC) won 4-2 over Scott Webb (Peace River, AB) in the Final of the Peace Tour Championship, held January 12 - 14, 2018 in Sexsmith, Alberta. To advance to the championship game, Ginter won 9-5 over Kurt Balderston (Grande Prairie, AB) in the semifinals

Ginter finished 2-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ginter defeated Colin Griffith (Grande Prairie, AB) 8-4, then won 6-5 against Webb in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Peace Tour Championship Championship title, Ginter earned 8.620 world rankings points along with the $2,250CDN first prize cheque, moving up 25 spots the World Ranking Standings into 145th place overall with 33.123 total points. Ginter ranks 121st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 23.332 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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