CHAMPION: Skanes Wins 2020 Centennial Spiel

SKIP
Trent
Skanes

Third
Cory
Schuh

Second
Spencer
Wicks

Lead
Mike
Day

Trent Skanes (St. John's, NL) won 8-2 over Andrew Symonds (St. John's, NL) in the Final of the Centennial Spiel, held January 2 - 5, 2020 in St. John, Newfoundland / Labrador. To advance to the championship game, Skanes won 6-5 over Colin Thomas (St. John's, NL) in the semifinals of the 2020 Centennial Spiel in St. John, Newfoundland / Labrador; and won 6-2 over Ken Peddigrew (St. John's, NL) in the quarterfinals.

Skanes finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Skanes defeated Jeff Thomas (St. John's, NL) 7-6, then won 5-0 against Greg Smith (St. John's , NL) and 9-3 against Neil Power (St. John's, NL). Skanes won 6-5 against Paul Harvey (St. John's, NL) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Centennial Spiel Championship title, Skanes earned 10.285 world rankings points along with the $2,400CDN first prize cheque, moving up 37 spots the World Ranking Standings into 140th place overall with 25.905 total points. Skanes ranks 120th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 25.085 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

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