Carruthers5-6 at 2018 Tim Hortons Brier

SKIP
Reid
Carruthers

Third
Braeden
Moskowy

Second
Derek
Samagalski

Lead
Colin
Hodgson

Reid Carruthers (West St. Paul, MB) finished 5-6 in the 16 team Tim Hortons Brier qualifying round, held March 3 - 11, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Carruthers defeated Eddie MacKenzie (Charlottetown, PEI) 12-7, then won 7-5 against Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK) and 12-5 against Dave St. Louis (Iqaluit, NU). Carruthers won 9-6 against Michael Fournier (Montreal, QC). Carruthers went on to lose 10-5 against John Epping (Toronto, ON). Carruthers responded with a 7-3 win over James Grattan (Oromocto, NB). Carruthers went on to lose 6-3 against Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT). Carruthers lost 7-2 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Carruthers lost 8-2 to Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB). Carruthers lost 7-5 to Jamie Murphy (Halifax, NS). Carruthers lost 8-3 to Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

Carruthers earned 13.039 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 31 of the event schedule, Carruthers did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 6th place on the World Ranking Standings with 675.06 total points. Carruthers ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 270.599 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2018	5	6	0	0.455	3-0	1-1	0-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2018	97	67	72	6.91	7.42	-0.52	4.12	4.23	1.68	1.76	1.65

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2018	51	54	11	10	0-0	4-0	13-3	1.06	0.22	0.41	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2018	46	13	61	6	1-3	1-3	1-12	0.28	1.33	0.45	0.15

Former Canadian junior curlers, like Laurie St-Georges (Photo: Andrew Klaver / Curling Canada), are holding their own at this year's Scotties.

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