CHAMPION: Walker/Muyres Wins 2022 Curling Stadium Alberta Curling Series Doubles #1

Laura Walker/Kirk Muyres (Edmonton, AB) won 7-5 over Chiaki Matsumura/Yasumasa Tanida (Nagano/Hokkaido, JPN) in the Final of the Curling Stadium Alberta Curling Series Doubles #1, held September 23 - 25, 2022 at the Leduc Curling Club in Leduc, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Walker/Muyres won 6-4 over Chantele Broderson/Kyler Kleibrink (Edmonton, AB) in the semifinals

Walker/Muyres finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Walker/Muyres defeated Emma Wiens/Andrew Nowell (Weyburn, SK) 8-3, then won 8-4 against Ashley Kalk/Craig MacAlpine (Edmonton, AB). Walker/Muyres went on to lose 7-4 against Matsumura/Tanida in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Curling Stadium Alberta Curling Series Doubles #1 Championship title, Walker/Muyres earned 22.500 world rankings points along with the $1,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 548th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 58.754 total points. Walker/Muyres ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	35	13	0	0.729	3-2	6-1	1-1	0-1	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	351	349	239	9.94	6.81	3.13	5.90	4.10	1.69	1.66	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	158	221	52	0	9-0	18-1	37-11	1.40	0.33	0.41	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	193	128	187	0	3-6	5-17	20-29	0.66	0.97	0.50	0.46

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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