CHAMPION: Birt Wins 2022 Jim Sullivan Curling Classic

SKIP
Suzanne
Birt

Third
Marie
Christianson

Second
Meaghan
Hughes

Lead
Michelle
Shea

Suzanne Birt (Summerside, PEI) won 10-3 over Andrea Kelly (Fredericton, NB) in the Final of the Jim Sullivan Curling Classic, held November 24 - 27, 2022 at the Capital Winter Curling Club in Fredericton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Birt won 7-3 over Jessica Daigle (Halifax, NS) in the semifinals of the 2022 Jim Sullivan Curling Classic in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada;

Birt finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Birt defeated Lauren Price (Moncton, NB) 11-4, then won 8-1 against New Brunswick's Laurie Dohaher and 7-5 against Melodie Forsythe (Moncton, NB). Birt won 9-2 against Jaclyn Crandall (Fredericton, NB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Jim Sullivan Curling Classic Championship title, Birt earned 15.000 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 43rd place overall with 89.554 total points. Birt ranks 42nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 51.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	26	16	0	0.619	4-4	0-4	2-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	333	267	200	8.02	6.01	2.01	4.86	3.96	1.65	1.52	1.17

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	155	176	43	17	4-0	10-0	40-8	1.14	0.28	0.39	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	178	91	157	22	1-2	7-11	15-31	0.51	0.88	0.55	0.33

2023: Melissa Adams
Melissa Adams, Jaclyn Crandall, Kendra Lister, Kayla Russell
Fredericton, NB
2022: Suzanne Birt
Suzanne Birt, Marie Christianson, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle Shea
Summerside, PEI
2019: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min-Ji Um, Su ji Kim, Ye eun Seol, Ye ji Seol
Gyeonggido, KOR
2018: Suzanne Birt
Suzanne Birt, Marie Christianson, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle Shea
Charlottetown, PEI
2017: Sylvie Quillian
Sylvie Quillian, Melissa Adams, Nicole Arsenault-Bishop, Kendra Lister
Moncton, NB

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

CURLING HISTORY: A Prize Letter

In the run up to Christmas Day, 1893, the Aberdeen Peoples's Journal offered a prize of one guinea for the best letter about curling! That's the invitation... (read more)
EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)