McEwen Runner-Up at 2013 Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown

SKIP
Mike
McEwen

Third
B.J.
Neufeld

Second
Matt
Wozniak

Lead
Denni
Neufeld

Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB) lost 5-3 to Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) in the Final of the Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown, held March 14 - 17, 2013 in Grande Prairie, Alberta. To advance to the championship game, McEwen won 9-4 over Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in the semifinals of the 2013 Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown in Grande Prairie, Alberta; and won 6-3 over Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in the quarterfinals. of the 2013 Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown in Grande Prairie, Alberta;

McEwen finished 4-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, McEwen lost 6-4 to Kurt Balderston (Grande Prairie, AB), then responded with a 8-3 win over Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB). McEwen won 4-3 against Rob Fowler (Brandon, MB), then won 7-4 against Charley Thomas (Calgary, AB) and 4-0 against Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown, McEwen take home 17.900 world rankings points along with the $10,000CDN prize, remaining in 2nd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 2.9 after improving upon their best so far this season. McEwen ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 178.460 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

Norway's Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten are into the win column after a tough start to the Milano-Cortina Games.

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