CHAMPION: Smith Wins 2016 Oakville OCT Fall Classic

Stirling, Scotland

SKIP
Kyle
Smith

Third
Thomas
Muirhead

Second
Kyle
Waddell

Lead
Cameron
Smith

Games:	7
Record:	7W - 0L
PF/G:	8.63
PA/G:	4.12
Hammer Efficiency:	0.21
Steal Defense:	0.10
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.40

Kyle Smith (Stirling, SCO) won 7-2 over Heath McCormick (Blaine, USA) in the Final of the Oakville OCT Fall Classic, held September 2 - 4, 2016 at the Oakville Curling Club in Oakville, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Smith won 5-4 over Ontario's Chris Gardner in the semifinals of the 2016 Oakville OCT Fall Classic in Oakville, Ontario, Canada; and won 8-4 over Ontario's Dayna Deruelle in the quarterfinals.

Smith finished 4-0 in the 25-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Smith defeated Todd Birr (Blaine, USA) 4-2, then won 6-3 against Pat Ferris (Grimsby, ON) and 8-4 against Greg Balsdon (Kingston, ON). Smith won 6-2 against Hugh Murphy (Oakville, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Oakville OCT Fall Classic Championship title, Smith earned 39.136 world rankings points along with the $3,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 18th place overall with 189.505 total points. Smith ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 61.006 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

2023: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. , Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2021: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Scott Howard, David Mathers, Tim March
Penetanguishene, ON
2019: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2018: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2016: Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Kyle Waddell, Cameron Smith
Stirling, SCO
2015: Codey Maus
Scott McDonald, Codey Maus, Wesley Forget, Jeff Grant, Brian Chick
London, ON

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