CHAMPION: Jones Wins 2018 Manitoba Scotties

SKIP
Jennifer
Jones

Third
Kaitlyn
Lawes

Second
Jill
Officer

Lead
Dawn
McEwen

Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, MB) won 7-6 over Darcy Robertson (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Manitoba Scotties, held January 10 - 14, 2018 in Killarney, Manitoba.

Jones finished 6-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jones defeated Lisa Menard (Winnipeg, MB) 9-2, then went on to lose 9-5 against Joelle Brown (Winnipeg, MB). Jones responded with a 11-6 win over Jennifer Briscoe (Thompson, MB). Jones won 8-4 against Alyssa Calvert (Carberry, MB), then won 8-4 against Kristy Watling (Winnipeg, MB) and 12-0 against Shannon Birchard (Winnipeg, MB). Jones won 9-4 against Briane Meilleur (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Manitoba Scotties Championship title, Jones earned 29.295 world rankings points. For week 23 of the event schedule, Jones did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 1st place on the World Ranking Standings with 780.885 total points. Jones ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 383.806 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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