CHAMPION: Birt Wins 2015 Sobeys Classic

SKIP
Suzanne
Birt

Third
Robyn
MacPhee

Second
Meaghan
Hughes

Lead
Marie
Christianson

Suzanne Birt (Charlottetown, PEI) won 8-5 over Colleen Pinkney (Truro, NS) in the Final of the Sobeys Classic, held October 1 - 4, 2015 in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. To advance to the championship game, Birt won 7-4 over Jocelyn Nix (Kentville, NS) in the semifinals

Birt finished 5-0 in the 6-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Birt defeated Jill Brothers (halifax, NS) 8-4, then won 6-4 against Emily Dwyer (Halifax, NS) and 9-3 against Nix. Birt won 7-1 against Pinkney, then won 8-6 against Shelly Bradley (Charlottetown, PEI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Sobeys Classic Championship title, Birt earned 0.000 world rankings points along with the $2,100CDN first prize cheque. For week 7 of the event schedule, Birt did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 36th to 37th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 55.449 total points. Birt ranks 21st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 39.893 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

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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