CHAMPION: McEwen Wins 2023 Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Mike
McEwen

Third
Ryan
Fry

Second
Brent
Laing

Lead
Joey
Hart

Mike McEwen (Toronto, ON) won 8-3 over Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene, ON) in the Final of the Ontario Tankard, held January 23 - 29, 2023 in Port Elgin, Ontario. To advance to the championship game, McEwen won 7-4 over John Epping (Toronto, ON) in the semifinals of the 2023 Ontario Tankard in Port Elgin, Ontario;

McEwen finished 6-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, McEwen defeated Jason Camm (Ottawa, ON) 10-4, then won 7-6 against Epping and 8-1 against Aaron Squires (St Thomas, ON). McEwen won 7-4 against Alex Champ (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON), then won 5-4 against Sam Mooibroek (Whitby, ON). McEwen went on to lose 5-2 against Howard. McEwen responded with a 8-2 win over Michael Fournier (Toronto, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ontario Tankard Championship title, McEwen earned 30.000 world rankings points. McEwen move up 8 spots after posting a net gain of 24.75 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 19th overall with 146.471 total points on the World Ranking Standings. McEwen ranks 23rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 106.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	35	25	0	0.583	14-7	6-6	4-4	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	457	356	304	7.79	6.65	1.14	4.53	4.20	1.72	1.58	1.27

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	228	262	74	31	5-3	19-3	59-10	1.15	0.32	0.42	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	229	94	230	27	3-3	5-17	16-42	0.41	1.00	0.57	0.25

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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