CHAMPION: Walker/Leichter Wins 2018 MadTown DoubleDown presented by Leinenkugel's

Monica Walker/Alex Leichter (Boston, MA) won 6-5 over Shannon Birchard/Catlin Schneider (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the MadTown DoubleDown presented by Leinenkugel's, held November 2 - 4, 2018 at the Madison Curling Club in McFarland, United States. To advance to the championship game, Walker/Leichter won 7-1 over Jamie Sinclair/Sean Beighton (Blaine, MN) in the semifinals of the 2018 MadTown DoubleDown presented by Leinenkugel's in McFarland, Wisconsin, United States; and won 7-3 over Vicky Persinger/Christopher Plys (Fairbanks, AK) in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 MadTown DoubleDown presented by Leinenkugel's in McFarland, Wisconsin, United States;

Walker/Leichter finished 3-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Walker/Leichter defeated Nina Roth/Kroy Nernberger (Madison, WI) 8-7, then won 9-4 against Rebecca Hamilton/Matt Hamilton (McFarland, WI) and 8-4 against Ildiko Szekeres/Gyorgy Nagy (Budapest, HUN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the MadTown DoubleDown presented by Leinenkugel's Championship title, Walker/Leichter earned 0.000 world rankings points along with the $8,518CDN first prize cheque. For week 12 of the event schedule, Walker/Leichter did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Walker/Leichter ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

2024: Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson, Andrew Stopera , Mark Lazar
Minneapolis, MN
2023: Chiaki Matsumura
Chiaki Matsumura, Yasumasa Tanida
Nagano/Hokkaido, JPN
2019: Anna Hasselborg
Anna Hasselborg, Oskar Eriksson , Mathias Hasselborg
Sundbyberg, SWE
2018: Monica Walker
Monica Walker, Alex Leichter
Boston, MA

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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