Young Runner-Up at 2022 Canadian Junior World Qualifier

SKIP
Nathan
Young

Third
Sam
Follett

Second
Nathan
Locke

Lead
Ben
Stringer

Nathan Young (St. John's, NL) lost 10-9 to Owen Purcell (Halifax, NS) in the Final of the Canadian Junior World Qualifier, held November 23 - 28, 2021 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. To advance to the championship game, Young won 5-4 over Scott Mitchell (Whitby, ON) in the semifinals of the 2022 Canadian Junior World Qualifier in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; and won 7-2 over Jordon McDonald (Winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2022 Canadian Junior World Qualifier in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan;

Young finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Young defeated Connor Deane (New Westminster, BC) 7-6, then won 14-3 against Jullian Bowling (Yellowknife, NT). Young went on to lose 9-3 against Purcell. Young responded with a 8-1 win over Raphael Patry (Jonquiere, QC). Young won 8-7 against Daymond Bernath (Saskatoon, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Canadian Junior World Qualifier, Young take home 18.288 world rankings points, moving up 37 spots the World Ranking Standings into 111th place overall with 36.654 total points. Young ranks 71st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 32.013 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	29	17	0	0.630	15-3	6-6	3-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	392	302	228	7.70	5.82	1.89	4.39	3.85	1.76	1.51	1.76

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	195	238	38	38	10-1	13-0	51-7	1.22	0.19	0.47	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	197	64	190	31	1-4	6-10	6-35	0.32	0.96	0.60	0.22

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

CURLING HISTORY: A Prize Letter

In the run up to Christmas Day, 1893, the Aberdeen Peoples's Journal offered a prize of one guinea for the best letter about curling! That's the invitation... (read more)
EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)