CHAMPION: Lawes Wins Manitoba Scotties presented by Rocky Mountain Equipment

SKIP
Kaitlyn
Lawes

Third
Selena
Njegovan

Second
Jocelyn
Peterman

Lead
Kristin
MacCuish

Kaitlyn Lawes (Winnipeg, MB) won 9-8 over Beth Peterson (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final Lawes advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Manitoba Scotties presented by Rocky Mountain Equipment, held January 23 - 28 in Morden, Manitoba.

Lawes finished 7-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Lawes defeated Shaela Hayward (Carman, MB) 12-2, then won 10-1 against Kristy Watling (East St. Paul, MB) and 8-2 against Emma Jensen (Winnipeg, MB). Lawes won 12-1 against Emily Cherwinski (Winnipeg, MB), then won 8-6 against Peterson and 10-2 against Zoey Terrick (Winnipeg, MB). Lawes went on to lose 7-5 against Jolene Campbell (Winnipeg, MB). Lawes responded with a 8-4 win over Kate Cameron (East St. Paul, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Manitoba Scotties presented by Rocky Mountain Equipment Championship title, Lawes earned 22.500 world rankings points, remaining in 11th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 15 after improving upon their best so far this season. Lawes ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 178.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	39	31	0	0.557	10-5	2-8	2-4	0-1	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	546	429	363	7.86	6.65	1.21	4.56	4.54	1.72	1.46	0.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	277	333	86	25	10-0	22-3	72-15	1.20	0.31	0.41	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	269	96	277	24	1-5	7-7	17-64	0.36	1.03	0.58	0.23

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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