CHAMPION: Higgs Wins 2011 Barrie Sleeman Cash Spiel

Harriston, Ontario

Fourth
Brent
Ross

SKIP
Jake
Higgs

Second
Jonathan
Beuk

Lead
Bill
Buchanan

Games:	10
Record:	8W - 2L
PF/G:	8.86
PA/G:	7.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.48
Steal Defense:	0.26
Force Efficiency:	0.45
Steal Efficiency:	0.29

Jake Higgs (Harriston, ON) won 6-4 over Daryl Shane (Kitchener, ON) in the Final of the Barrie Sleeman Cash Spiel, held October 13 - 16, 2011 at the Barrie Curling Club in Barrie, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Higgs won 7-5 over Mike Jakubo (Sudbury, ON) in the semifinals of the 2011 Barrie Sleeman Cash Spiel in Barrie, Ontario, Canada; and won 7-2 over Peter Corner (Brampton, ON) in the quarterfinals.

Higgs finished 5-2 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Higgs defeated Andrew Thompson (Stroud, ON) 8-6, then won 7-6 against Jeff Clark (Cobourg, ON) and 8-6 against Denis Belanger (Toronto, ON). Higgs went on to lose 6-2 against Corner. Higgs lost 8-1 to Chris Gardner (Ottawa, ON) where Higgs responded with a 8-4 win over Willie MacPherson (Alliston, ON). Higgs won 8-2 against Ontario's Michael Shepherd in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Barrie Sleeman Cash Spiel Championship title, Higgs earned 10.400 world rankings points along with the $6,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 18th place overall with 82.529 total points. Higgs ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 43.830 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

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2023: Pat Ferris
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2022: Yannick Schwaller
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2019: Sandy MacEwan
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2017: Wayne Tuck Jr.
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2016: Chad Allen
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2015: Codey Maus
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