CHAMPION: Gushue Wins 2013 NL Provincials Mens Curling Championship

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Adam
Casey

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) won 8-2 over Colin Thomas (St. John's, NL) in the Final of the NL Provincials Mens Curling Championship, held February 5 - 10, 2013 in St. Johns, Newfoundland / Labrador.

Gushue finished 7-0 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gushue defeated Jeff Thomas (St. John's, NL) 10-3, then won 9-5 against Shawn Adams (St. John's, NL) and 5-4 against Keith Ryan (Labrador City, NL). Gushue won 9-2 against Brian Mercer (Labrador City, NL), then won 7-5 against Thomas and 11-7 against Newfoundland / Labrador's Andrew Symonds. Gushue won 4-2 against Ken Peddigrew (St. John's, NL) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the NL Provincials Mens Curling Championship Championship title, Gushue earned 4.000 world rankings points. For week 26 of the event schedule, Gushue did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 9th place on the World Ranking Standings with 209.091 total points. Gushue ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 107.375 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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