CHAMPION: Black Wins 2022 Bogside Cup

SKIP
Christina
Black

Third
Jenn
Baxter

Second
Karlee
Everist

Lead
Shelley
Barker

Christina Black (Halifax, NS) won 7-1 over Marlee Powers (Halifax, NS) in the Final of the Bogside Cup, held December 9 - 11, 2022 at the Montague Curling Club in Montague, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Black won 9-3 over Kristen MacDiarmid (Halifax, NS) in the semifinals

Black finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Black defeated Jennifer Crouse (Halifax, NS) 10-6, then won 7-0 against Samantha Crook (Sackville, NB) and 9-1 against Jessica Daigle (Halifax, NS). Black won 9-3 against Prince Edward Island's Melissa Morrow in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Bogside Cup Championship title, Black earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $2,600CDN first prize cheque. Black move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 1.936 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 15th overall with 149.944 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Black ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 99.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	41	12	0	0.774	9-2	5-4	3-1	0-0	2-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	400	386	221	9.65	5.53	4.13	5.25	3.83	1.84	1.44	0.93

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	187	258	51	14	5-0	26-4	51-9	1.38	0.27	0.47	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	213	128	170	23	9-0	6-6	15-39	0.60	0.80	0.62	0.33

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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