CHAMPION: Gushue Wins 2023 Pan-Continental Championships

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Mark
Nichols

Second
E.J.
Harnden

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) won 11-3 over ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR) in the Final of the Pan-Continental Championships, held October 31 - November 5, 2022 in Calgary, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Gushue won 8-2 over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals

Gushue finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gushue lost 10-8 to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, USA), then responded with a 7-1 win over Marcelo Mello (Sao Paolo, BRA). Gushue won 11-2 against Yanagisawa, then won 11-3 against Jeong and 11-5 against Jay Merchant (Melbourne, AUS). Gushue won 10-5 against Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL), then won 11-3 against Chinese Taipei's Randie Shen in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Pan-Continental Championships Championship title, Gushue earned 37.500 world rankings points, remaining in 1st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -34.609 after improving upon their best so far this season. Gushue ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 172.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	60	17	0	0.779	17-3	12-5	4-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	608	543	325	8.93	5.35	3.59	5.02	3.82	1.78	1.40	1.17

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	281	430	22	33	16-0	27-0	94-5	1.53	0.08	0.55	0.06

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	327	113	303	38	2-1	8-11	17-63	0.35	0.93	0.65	0.23

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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