CHAMPION: Mooibroek Wins 2025 Ontario Mens Curling Championship

Whitby, Ontario

SKIP
Sam
Mooibroek

Third
Ryan
Wiebe

Second
Scott
Mitchell

Lead
Nathan
Steele

Games:	5
Record:	5W - 0L
PF/G:	9.13
PA/G:	5.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.65
Steal Defense:	0.06
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.32

Sam Mooibroek (Whitby, ON) won 7-4 over Scott Howard (Navan, ON) in the Final of the Ontario Mens Curling Championship, held January 19 - 26, 2025 in Cobourg, Ontario.

Mooibroek finished 3-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mooibroek defeated Kibo Mulima (Waterloo, ON) 8-4, then won 10-6 against Jonathan Beuk (Kingston, ON) to advance to the A-Qualifier where they 8-6 against Mark Kean (Woodstock, ON) to advance to the playoff round. in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ontario Mens Curling Championship Championship title, Mooibroek earned 18.750 world rankings points. Mooibroek move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 8.25 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 21st overall with 150.469 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Mooibroek ranks 22nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 120.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	50	32	0	0.610	8-2	1-2	3-3	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	589	489	388	8.30	6.59	1.71	4.80	4.30	1.73	1.53	0.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	281	360	90	20	9-2	29-5	70-13	1.28	0.32	0.41	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	308	129	298	33	4-3	6-14	23-67	0.42	0.97	0.56	0.27

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