CHAMPION: Young Wins 2022 Newfoundland & Labrador Tankard

SKIP
Nathan
Young

Third
Sam
Follett

Second
Nathan
Locke

Lead
Ben
Stringer

Nathan Young (St. John's, NL) won 8-4 over Greg Smith (St. John's, NL) in the Final Young advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Newfoundland & Labrador Tankard, held February 8 - 13, 2022 in St. John, Newfoundland / Labrador.

Young finished 8-0 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Young defeated Alex Smith (St. John's, NL) 9-7, then won 6-5 against Ryan McNeil Lamswood (St. John's, NL) and 5-3 against Andrew Symonds (St. John's, NL). Young won 7-4 against Sean O'Leary (St. John's, NL), then won 8-2 against Ken Peddigrew (St. John's, NL) and 7-4 against Dave Thomas (Port aux Basques, NL). Young won 9-4 against Trent Skanes (St. John's, NL), then won 8-3 against Smith in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Newfoundland & Labrador Tankard Championship title, Young earned 12.500 world rankings points, moving up 27 spots the World Ranking Standings into 84th place overall with 46.833 total points. Young ranks 71st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 44.513 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.

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