CHAMPION: Galusha Wins 2023 Northwest Territories Scotties

SKIP
Kerry
Galusha

Third
Sarah
Koltun

Second
Margot
Flemming

Lead
Jo-Ann
Rizzo

Kerry Galusha (Yellowknife, NT) won 8-1 over Reese Wainman (Inuvik, NT) in the Final of the Northwest Territories Scotties, held January 11 - 15, 2023 at the Inuvik Curling Club in Inuvik, Canada.

Galusha finished 6-0 in the 4-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Galusha defeated Wainman 13-2, then won 15-1 against Ashley Lennie (Inuvik, NT) and 11-1 against Tyanna Bain (Inuvik, NT). Galusha won 8-4 against Bain, then won 12-5 against Lennie and 10-1 against Wainman in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Northwest Territories Scotties Championship title, Galusha earned 3.750 world rankings points, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 28th place overall with 111.949 total points. Galusha ranks 35th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 80.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	29	17	0	0.630	7-1	4-8	3-2	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	356	318	222	8.93	6.24	2.70	5.28	3.93	1.69	1.59	0.79

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	153	210	40	8	7-1	12-1	47-8	1.37	0.26	0.46	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	203	108	182	20	3-2	8-13	12-36	0.53	0.90	0.55	0.34

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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