McEwen

SKIP
Mike
McEwen

Third
B.J.
Neufeld

Second
Matt
Wozniak

Lead
Denni
Neufeld

Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, McEwen finished 7-4 in the 16 team Tim Hortons Brier qualifying round, held March 3 - 11, 2018 in , . In their opening game, McEwen defeated Thomas Scoffin (Whitehorse, YK) 5-3, then won 9-3 against Sean Geall (Kelowna, BC) and 6-5 against Jamie Murphy (Halifax, NS). McEwen went on to lose 7-5 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). McEwen responded with a 10-3 win over Jamie Koe (Yellowknife, NT). McEwen won 6-2 against Greg Smith (St. John's, NL). McEwen went on to lose 9-2 against Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB). McEwen lost 8-7 to John Epping (Toronto, ON). McEwen lost 8-1 to Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT) where McEwen responded with a 6-4 win over Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK). McEwen won 8-3 against Reid Carruthers (West St. Paul, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

McEwen earned 20.862 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 31 of the event schedule, McEwen did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 5th place on the World Ranking Standings with 705.878 total points. McEwen ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 365.180 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2018	8	4	0	0.667	2-0	1-1	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2018	107	69	58	6.45	5.42	1.03	3.93	3.64	1.64	1.49	2.43

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2018	50	53	15	10	0-1	5-0	12-2	1.06	0.30	0.43	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2018	57	16	43	16	0-1	1-0	3-8	0.28	0.75	0.70	0.19

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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