CHAMPION: Murphy Wins 2018 Steele Cup Cash

Halifax, Nova Scotia

SKIP
Jamie
Murphy

Third
Paul
Flemming

Second
Scott
Saccary

Lead
Philip
Crowell

Games:	6
Record:	4W - 2L
PF/G:	28.33
PA/G:	21.67
Hammer Efficiency:	1.00
Steal Defense:	0.00
Force Efficiency:	0.17
Steal Efficiency:	0.00

Jamie Murphy (Halifax, NS) won 5-4 over Rod Aube (Fredericton, NB) in the Final of the 2018 Steele Cup Cash in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Murphy won 7-3 over James Grattan (Oromocto, NB) in the semifinals and won 8-3 over Paul Dobson (Saint John, NB) in the quarterfinals.

Murphy finished 1-2 in the 12 team Steele Cup Cash qualifying round, held October 12 - 14, 2018 at the Capital Winter Curling Club in Fredericton, Canada. In their opening game, Murphy defeated Zac Blanchard (Saint John, NB) 8-1, then went on to lose 8-4 against Aube. Murphy lost 7-2 to Ed Cyr (Fredericton, NB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Steele Cup Cash Championship title, Murphy earned 13.144 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 37th place overall with 101.969 total points. Murphy ranks 86th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.144 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	4	2	0	0.667	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	12	34	26	28.33	21.67	6.67	5.00	5.00	5.67	4.33	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	6	34	0	0	5-0	0-0	1-0	5.67	0.00	1.00	0.00

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	6	0	26	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	0.00	4.33	0.17	0.00

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