CHAMPION: Barker Wins 2023 SaskTour Womens Players Championship

SKIP
Penny
Barker

Third
Christie
Gamble

Second
Jenna
Enge

Lead
Danielle
Sicinski

Penny Barker (Moose Jaw, SK) won 8-7 over Skylar Ackerman (Saskatoon, SK) in the Final of the SaskTour Womens Players Championship, held January 13 - 15, 2023 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. To advance to the championship game, Barker won 6-3 over Nancy Martin (Saskatoon, SK) in the semifinals

Barker finished 3-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Barker defeated Jessica Mitchell (Saskatoon, SK) 11-1, then won 6-2 against Lorraine Schneider (Regina, SK) and 7-2 against Amber Holland (Regina, SK). Barker went on to lose 6-4 against Martin in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the SaskTour Womens Players Championship Championship title, Barker earned 22.500 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 6 spots the World Ranking Standings into 22nd place overall with 131.788 total points. Barker ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 98.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	26	13	0	0.667	4-1	2-1	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	285	257	185	9.02	6.49	2.53	5.37	4.14	1.68	1.57	0.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	130	164	44	4	5-0	14-1	25-9	1.26	0.34	0.35	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	155	93	141	10	3-4	5-11	13-21	0.60	0.91	0.58	0.39

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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