CHAMPION: McLaughlin/Horgan Wins 2022 Ontario Mixed Doubles Tour Championship

Keira McLaughlin/Tanner Horgan (Sudbury, ON) won 7-3 over Riley Sandham/Brendan Craig (Guelph, ON) in the Final of the Ontario Mixed Doubles Tour Championship, held February 18 - 20, 2022 at the Wingham Golf and Curling Club in Wingham, Canada. To advance to the championship game, McLaughlin/Horgan won 6-5 over Kimberly Tuck/Wayne Tuck Jr. (Strathroy, ON) in the semifinals of the 2022 Ontario Mixed Doubles Tour Championship in Wingham, Ontario, Canada; and won 3-2 over Abby Deschene/Jake Horgan (Sudbury, ON) in the quarterfinals.

McLaughlin/Horgan finished 3-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, McLaughlin/Horgan defeated Ling-Yue Hung/Jason Chang (Hong Kong, HKG) 10-4, then won 10-9 against Grace Holyoke/Thomas Ryan (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON) and 8-7 against Deschene/Horgan in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ontario Mixed Doubles Tour Championship Championship title, McLaughlin/Horgan earned 25.241 world rankings points along with the $1,500CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 778th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 25.24 after improving upon their best so far this season. McLaughlin/Horgan ranks 55th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 34.416 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	9	3	0	0.750	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
2022	92	78	61	8.48	6.63	1.85	5.11	4.89	1.66	1.36	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	48	56	23	0	4-0	3-1	8-2	1.17	0.48	0.31	0.40

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	44	22	38	0	0-0	0-1	4-10	0.50	0.86	0.58	0.41

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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