Howard Runner-Up at 2023 Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Glenn
Howard

Third
Scott
Howard

Second
David
Mathers

Lead
Tim
March

After advancing directly to the championship game, Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene, ON) lost 8-3 to Mike McEwen (Toronto, ON) in the Final of the Ontario Tankard, held January 23 - 29, 2023 in Port Elgin, Ontario.

Howard finished 7-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Howard defeated Dayna Deruelle (Harriston, ON) 9-2, then won 9-8 against Landan Rooney (Whitby, ON) and 9-7 against Michael Fournier (Toronto, ON). Howard won 10-2 against John Willsey (Oakville, ON), then won 8-2 against Pat Ferris (Grimsby, ON) and 5-2 against McEwen. Howard won 7-3 against John Epping (Toronto, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Ontario Tankard, Howard take home 22.000 world rankings points. Howard move up 7 spots after posting a net gain of 20.125 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 26th overall with 130.898 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Howard ranks 39th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 77.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	23	14	0	0.622	8-3	5-1	2-3	1-0	2-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	275	239	160	8.69	5.82	2.87	5.02	3.89	1.73	1.50	1.09

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	133	175	26	16	9-0	10-1	28-2	1.32	0.20	0.40	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	142	64	134	14	1-3	3-6	12-28	0.45	0.94	0.56	0.30

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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