Marks Reaches Saville Grand Prix Quarters

SKIP
Abby
Marks

Third
Elysa
Crough

Second
Kim
Bonneau

Lead
Julianna
Mackenzie

Abby Marks (Edmonton, AB) qualified for the Saville Grand Prix playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 4-3 against Serena Gray-Withers (Edmonton, AB). of the Saville Grand Prix in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Marks finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Marks defeated Delaney Strouse (Traverse City, MI) 8-3, then won 7-1 against Adele Purcell (Edmonton, AB) and 8-4 against Miyu Ueno (Karuizawa, JPN). Marks went on to lose 5-3 against Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Marks earned 13.500 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Saville Grand Prix. Marks gained 8.25 points improving upon their best 4 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 40thplace overall with 87.622 total points. Marks ranks 35th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 51.313 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	41	28	0	0.594	5-2	7-5	2-4	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	518	416	326	8.03	6.29	1.74	4.77	3.96	1.68	1.59	1.27

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	244	301	64	28	12-3	17-2	57-5	1.23	0.26	0.40	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	274	115	262	38	1-3	7-16	21-62	0.42	0.96	0.49	0.28

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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