CHAMPION: Einarson Wins 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts

SKIP
Kerri
Einarson

Third
Val
Sweeting

Second
Shannon
Birchard

Lead
Briane
Harris

Kerri Einarson (Gimli, CAN) won 10-4 over Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, held February 17 - 26, 2023 in Kamloops, British Columbia. To advance to the championship game, Einarson won 7-5 over Krista McCarville (Thunder Bay, NONT) in the semifinals of the 2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Kamloops, British Columbia;

Einarson finished 8-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Einarson defeated Laurie St-Georges (Laval-sur-la-Lac, QC) 11-8, then won 9-4 against Clancy Grandy (Vancouver, BC) and 10-9 against Kaitlyn Lawes (Winnipeg, MB). Einarson won 9-3 against Suzanne Birt (Summerside, PEI), then won 9-4 against Christina Black (Halifax, NS) and 10-3 against Robyn Silvernagle (North Battleford, SK). Einarson won 9-8 against Kayla Skrlik (Calgary, AB), then won 11-3 against Brigitte MacPhail (Iqaluit, NU) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Championship title, Einarson earned 75.000 world rankings points, remaining in 1st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 53.75 after improving upon their best so far this season. Einarson ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 359.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	64	26	0	0.711	23-3	11-8	6-4	5-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	733	641	455	8.74	6.21	2.54	4.99	4.11	1.75	1.51	0.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	353	462	82	34	12-4	29-1	107-5	1.31	0.23	0.46	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	380	179	373	32	5-7	12-20	29-73	0.47	0.98	0.58	0.29

2024: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes, Rachel Brown, Don Bartlett
Ottawa, ON
2023: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris , Reid Carruthers
Gimli, CAN
2022: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris , Reid Carruthers
Gimli, CAN
2020: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris, Jennifer Clark-Rouire
Gimli, MB
2019: Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Carey, Sarah Wilkes, Dana Ferguson, Rachel Brown
Calgary, AB
2018: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Shannon Birchard, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen, Kaitlyn Lawes
Winnipeg, MB

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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