CHAMPION: Muirhead Wins 2018 Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic

SKIP
Glen
Muirhead

Third
Kyle
Smith

Second
Thomas
Muirhead

Lead
Cameron
Smith

Glen Muirhead (Perth, SCO) won 5-4 over Ross Paterson (Glasgow, SCO) in the Final of the Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic, held November 23 - 26, 2018 at the Penticton Curling Club in Penticton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Muirhead won 8-5 over Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) in the semifinals of the 2018 Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada; and won 3-0 over Charley Thomas (Toronto, ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada;

Muirhead finished 5-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Muirhead defeated Tyler Tardi (Langley, BC) 9-3, then won 6-4 against Neil Dangerfield (Victoria, BC) and 6-5 against Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN). Muirhead won 6-4 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB), then won 8-5 against Kirk Muyres (Saskatoon, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic Championship title, Muirhead earned 61.055 world rankings points along with the $19,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 19th place overall with 235.701 total points. Muirhead ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 133.549 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2023: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Scott Howard, David Mathers, Tim March
Penetanguishene, ON
2021: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Glen Muirhead
Glen Muirhead, Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Cameron Smith
Perth, SCO
2017: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

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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