CHAMPION: Homan Wins 2023 Ontario Scotties

SKIP
Rachel
Homan

Third
Tracy
Fleury

Second
Emma
Miskew

Lead
Sarah
Wilkes

Rachel Homan (Ottawa, ON) won 9-2 over Hollie Duncan (Woodstock, ON) in the Final Homan advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Ontario Scotties, held January 23 - 29, 2023 in Port Elgin, Ontario.

Homan finished 6-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Homan defeated Susan Froud (Alliston, ON) 10-1, then went on to lose 9-8 against Alli Flaxey (Dundas Valley, ON). Homan responded with a 10-4 win over Lauren Mann (Arnprior, ON). Homan won 1-0 against Maddy Warriner (Dundas, ON), then won 11-9 against Danielle Inglis (Ottawa, ON) and 8-7 against Duncan. Homan won 7-3 against Carly Howard (Mississauga, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ontario Scotties Championship title, Homan earned 30.000 world rankings points. For week 26 of the event schedule, Homan did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 2nd place on the World Ranking Standings with 341.859 total points. Homan ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 270.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	53	17	0	0.757	18-4	10-5	4-4	0-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	537	454	336	8.45	6.26	2.20	4.75	4.28	1.78	1.46	0.97

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	277	360	81	31	10-2	34-5	70-9	1.30	0.29	0.46	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	260	94	255	21	3-1	4-15	12-48	0.36	0.98	0.63	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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