CHAMPION: Duncan Wins 2021 Stu Sells Oakville Tankard

SKIP
Hollie
Duncan

Third
Megan
Balsdon

Second
Rachelle
Strybosch

Lead
Tess
Guyatt

Hollie Duncan (Woodstock , ON) won 7-3 over Kerry Galusha (Yellowknife, NT) in the Final of the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard, held September 10 - 13, 2021 in Oakville, Ontario. To advance to the championship game, Duncan won 10-5 over Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals

Duncan finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Duncan defeated Marie-Elaine Little (Sudbury, NONT) 7-3, then won 7-3 against Heather Heggestad (Thornhill, ON) and 6-5 against Jestyn Murphy (Mississauga, ON). Duncan went on to lose 6-4 against Courtney Auld (Toronto, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Stu Sells Oakville Tankard Championship title, Duncan earned 32.369 world rankings points along with the $5,500CDN first prize cheque, moving up 12 spots the World Ranking Standings into 19th place overall with 91.305 total points. Duncan ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 32.369 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	37	21	0	0.638	9-2	5-6	1-3	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	449	390	296	8.69	6.59	2.09	4.99	4.28	1.74	1.54	0.74

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	209	273	62	13	8-0	19-4	58-8	1.31	0.30	0.43	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	240	117	234	20	5-3	4-11	20-56	0.49	0.98	0.52	0.31

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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