Jacobs2-4 at Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling

Sault Ste Marie, Northern Ontario

SKIP
Brad
Jacobs

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
E.J.
Harnden

Lead
Ryan
Harnden

Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT) finished 2-4 in the 7 team Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling qualifying round, held November 27 - December 1 in , . In their opening game, Jacobs defeated Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene, ON) 6-3, then went on to lose 11-7 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). Jacobs responded with a 7-5 win over Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK). Jacobs went on to lose 9-4 against John Epping (Toronto, ON). Jacobs lost 5-4 to Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB). Jacobs lost 6-2 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in their final qualifying round match.

Jacobs earned 8.764 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Jacobs gained -27.848 points improving upon their best 7 events, though dropped 2 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 4thplace overall with 459.935 total points. Jacobs ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 276.876 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	2	4	0	0.333	1-0	1-4	0-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	55	30	39	5.45	7.09	-1.64	3.82	4.36	1.43	1.63	1.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	28	26	3	7	0-0	2-0	4-0	0.93	0.11	0.29	0.11

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	27	4	36	3	0-2	0-2	1-5	0.15	1.33	0.57	0.11

2019: John Epping
John Epping, Ryan Fry, Mathew Camm, Brent Laing
Toronto, ON
2018: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2016: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Braeden Moskowy, Derek Samagalski, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2010: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Richard Hart, Brent Laing, Craig Savill
Coldwater, ON

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