CHAMPION: Champ Wins 2022 Stu Sells Cookstown Classic

Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario

SKIP
Alex
Champ

Third
Charlie
Richard

Second
Terry
Arnold

Lead
Scott
Clinton

Games:	8
Record:	6W - 2L
PF/G:	8.04
PA/G:	4.64
Hammer Efficiency:	0.24
Steal Defense:	0.32
Force Efficiency:	0.69
Steal Efficiency:	0.44

Alex Champ (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON) won 5-1 over Pat Ferris (Grimsby, ON) in the Final of the Stu Sells Cookstown Classic, held November 25 - 27, 2022 at the Cookstown Curling Club in Cookstown, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Champ won 4-2 over Landan Rooney (Whitby, ON) in the semifinals of the 2022 Stu Sells Cookstown Classic in Cookstown, Ontario, Canada; and won 9-3 over Jordan McNamara (Ottawa, ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2022 Stu Sells Cookstown Classic in Cookstown, Ontario, Canada;

Champ finished 3-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Champ lost 5-4 to McNamara, droppimg another game, 7-3 to Carter Bryant (Guelph , ON) where Champ responded with a 7-3 win over Scott Ray (Cookstown, ON). Champ won 7-2 against Bryant to advance to the C-Qualifier where they 6-3 against Mike Foster (Cookstown, ON) to advance to the playoff round. in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Stu Sells Cookstown Classic Championship title, Champ earned 15.000 world rankings points along with the $3,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 13 spots the World Ranking Standings into 73rd place overall with 58.658 total points. Champ ranks 43rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 50.188 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	20	17	0	0.541	1-0	0-4	0-1	0-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	261	183	182	7.01	6.97	0.04	4.33	4.52	1.62	1.54	1.15

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	136	128	62	16	4-1	6-3	28-9	0.94	0.46	0.32	0.32

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	125	55	120	14	0-3	3-8	12-21	0.44	0.96	0.57	0.30

2023: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Jason Camm
Toronto, ON
2022: Alex Champ
Alex Champ, Charlie Richard, Terry Arnold, Scott Clinton
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
2017: Mark Kean
Mark Kean, Colin Dow, Brad Kidd, Scott Brandon, Brett Dekoning
Woodstock, ON
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Claudio Paetz, Peter De Cruz, Valentin Tanner
Geneva, SUI
2014: Pat Ferris
Pat Ferris, Andrew Fairfull, Craig Fairfull, Nathan Small, Robert Larmer
Grimsby, ON
2013: Peter Corner
Peter Corner, Graeme McCarrel, Scott Foster, Ken McDermot
Brampton, ON
2012: Pat Ferris
Pat Ferris, Andrew Fairfull, Craig Fairfull, Robert Larmer
Grimsby, ON

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