CHAMPION: Einarson Wins 2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts

SKIP
Kerri
Einarson

Third
Val
Sweeting

Second
Shannon
Birchard

Lead
Briane
Harris

Kerri Einarson (Gimli, CAN) won 9-6 over Krista McCarville (Thunder Bay, NONT) in the Final of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, held January 28 - February 6, 2022 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. To advance to the championship game, Einarson won 8-4 over Andrea Crawford (Fredericton, NB) in the semifinals of the 2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Thunder Bay, Ontario;

Einarson finished 8-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Einarson defeated Hollie Duncan (Woodstock, ON) 12-5, then won 6-3 against Christina Black (Dartmouth, NS) and 8-5 against Laurie St-Georges (Laval-sur-la-Lac, QC). Einarson won 10-5 against Laura Walker (Edmonton, AB), then won 10-5 against Mary-Anne Arsenault (Kelowna, BC) and 6-4 against Hailey Birnie (Whitehorse, YK). Einarson won 8-5 against Kerry Galusha (Yellowknife, NT), then won 10-7 against Mackenzie Zacharias (Altona, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Championship title, Einarson earned 88.825 world rankings points, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 3rd place overall with 322.044 total points. Einarson ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 217.027 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	56	25	0	0.691	19-6	19-5	7-3	3-2	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	653	556	400	8.51	6.13	2.39	4.69	4.32	1.82	1.42	1.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	314	420	74	30	12-1	36-2	85-9	1.34	0.24	0.47	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	339	136	326	35	5-2	9-14	19-67	0.40	0.96	0.63	0.24

2024: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes, Rachel Brown, Don Bartlett
Ottawa, ON
2023: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris , Reid Carruthers
Gimli, CAN
2022: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris , Reid Carruthers
Gimli, CAN
2020: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris, Jennifer Clark-Rouire
Gimli, MB
2019: Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Carey, Sarah Wilkes, Dana Ferguson, Rachel Brown
Calgary, AB
2018: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Shannon Birchard, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen, Kaitlyn Lawes
Winnipeg, MB

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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