CHAMPION: Bowles Wins BC Scotties Open Qualifier

Victoria, British Columbia

SKIP
Emily
Bowles

Third
Meredith
Cole

Second
Gabby
Brissette

Lead
Mahra
Harris

Games:	3
Record:	3W - 0L
PF/G:	8.93
PA/G:	5.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.13
Steal Defense:	0.00
Force Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Efficiency:	0.53

Emily Bowles (Victoria, BC) won 10-6 over Sarah Wark (Abbotsford, BC) in the Final Bowles advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the BC Scotties Open Qualifier, held December 15 - 17 at the Cloverdale Curling Club in Surrey, Canada.

Bowles finished 2-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bowles defeated Veronica Bernard (New Westminster, BC) 7-5, then won 8-3 against Wark in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the BC Scotties Open Qualifier Championship title, Bowles earned 3.750 world rankings points, moving up 25 spots the World Ranking Standings into 159th place overall with 8.141 total points. Bowles ranks 146th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 6.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	30	25	0	0.545	2-1	4-5	0-2	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	466	353	363	7.58	7.79	-0.21	4.79	4.55	1.58	1.71	0.67

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	220	247	90	14	2-2	17-9	56-11	1.12	0.41	0.36	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	246	106	273	17	2-4	4-22	19-58	0.43	1.11	0.47	0.29

Bottcher Out!

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

Kubota Challenge: Gord Bamford vs Brad Gushue

CURLING HISTORY: A Prize Letter

In the run up to Christmas Day, 1893, the Aberdeen Peoples's Journal offered a prize of one guinea for the best letter about curling! That's the invitation... (read more)
EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)