Birt6-5 at 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts

Suzanne Birt (Charlottetown, PEI) finished 6-5 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Birt lost 9-7 to Andrea Kelly (Oromocto, NB), then responded with a 10-5 win over Marie-France Larouche (Levis, PQ). Birt went on to lose 10-6 against Amber Holland (Kronau, SK). Birt lost 8-2 to Rachel Homan (Ottawa, ON) where Birt responded with a 8-6 win over Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, CAN). Birt won 7-5 against Shannon Kleibrink (Calgary, AB), then won 6-3 against Heather Smith-Dacey (Halifax, NS). Birt went on to lose 4-3 against Kelly Scott (Kelowna, BC). Birt lost 7-6 to Kerry Galusha (Yellowknife, Y/NWT) where Birt responded with a 8-5 win over Cathy Overton-Clapham (Winnipeg, MB). Birt won 10-5 against Stacie Devereaux (St. John's, NL) in their final qualifying round match.

Birt earned 12.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 14 spots the World Ranking Standings into 56th place overall with 34.725 total points. Birt ranks 51st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 20.700 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

Jacobs wins Olympic Trials

Calgary's Brad Jacobs (Photo: Curling Canada/Andrew Klaver) defeats Winnipeg's Matt Dunstone 6-5, winning 2 games to 0 in a best-of-three final at the Montana's Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Halifax, N.

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