CHAMPION: Yoshimura Wins 2018 Oakville Fall Classic

SKIP
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Third
Kaho
Onodera

Second
Anna
Ohmiya

Lead
Yumie
Funayama

Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) won 5-1 over Erica Hopson (Ottawa, ON) in the Final of the Oakville Fall Classic, held August 30 - September 2, 2018 at the Oakville Curling Club in Oakville, Canada. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Yoshimura won 8-2 over Anna Sidorova (Moscow, RUS) to advance to the championship game. of the 2018 Oakville Fall Classic in Oakville, Ontario, Canada;

Yoshimura finished 4-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura defeated Hopson 6-1, then won 6-4 against Chrissy Cadorin (Thornhill, ON) and 6-0 against Jestyn Murphy (Mississauga, ON). Yoshimura won 6-3 against Jo-Ann Rizzo (Tornto, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Oakville Fall Classic Championship title, Yoshimura earned 30.968 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 20th place overall with 136.166 total points. Yoshimura ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 45.909 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

2019: Eve Muirhead
Eve Muirhead, Lauren Gray, Jennifer Dodds, Vicky Wright
Stirling, SCO
2018: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Uliana Vasilyeva
, Uliana Vasilyeva, Galina Arsenkina, Julia Guzieva
, RUS
2016: Anna Hasselborg
Anna Hasselborg, Sara McManus, Agnes Knochenhauer, Sofia Mabergs
Sundbyberg, SWE
2015: Jacqueline Harrison
Jacqueline Harrison, Janet Murphy, Stephanie Matheson, Melissa Foster, Nicole Westlund Stewart
, ON

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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