Morrison Runner-Up at 2023 St. Galler Elite Challenge

SKIP
Rebecca
Morrison

Third
Gina
Aitken

Second
Sophie
Sinclair

Lead
Sophie
Jackson

Rebecca Morrison (Stirling, SCO) lost 8-5 to Xenia Schwaller (ZÃ¼rich, SUI) in the Final of the St. Galler Elite Challenge, held January 20 - 23, 2023 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. To advance to the championship game, Morrison won 5-2 over Michele Jaeggi (Bern, SUI) in the semifinals of the 2023 St. Galler Elite Challenge in St. Gallen, Switzerland; and won 4-3 over Beth Farmer (Stirling, SCO) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 St. Galler Elite Challenge in St. Gallen, Switzerland;

Morrison finished 3-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morrison defeated Sara Messenzehl (Fuessen, GER) 8-7, then won 11-2 against Dilsat Yildiz (Erzurum, TUR) and 7-3 against Switzerland's Isabell Einspieler in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the St. Galler Elite Challenge, Morrison take home 16.500 world rankings points along with the $3,660CDN prize. Morrison move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 12.75 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 26th overall with 120.458 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Morrison ranks 23rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 105.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	45	33	0	0.577	11-5	10-12	6-8	0-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	604	486	395	8.05	6.54	1.51	4.88	4.26	1.65	1.54	0.86

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	293	341	82	33	7-0	25-5	72-9	1.16	0.28	0.40	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	311	145	313	19	4-5	4-20	27-64	0.47	1.01	0.54	0.32

2024: Emira Abbes
Emira Abbes, Lena Kapp, Mia Hoehne, Maike Beer
Fuessen, GER
2023: Xenia Schwaller
Xenia Schwaller, Fabienne Rieder, Marion Wuest, Selina Gafner, Selina Rychiger, Andreas Schwaller
ZÃ¼rich, SUI
2022: Nora Wuest
Nora Wuest, Anna Stern, Karin Winter, Lisa Gugler
Wetzikon, SUI

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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