CHAMPION: Mouat Wins 2023 Scottish Curling Championships

SKIP
Bruce
Mouat

Third
Grant
Hardie

Second
Bobby
Lammie

Lead
Hammy
McMillan Jr.

Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) won 7-6 over James J.Craik (Stirling, SCO) in the Final of the Scottish Curling Championships, held February 6 - 12, 2023 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland.

Mouat finished 7-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mouat defeated Cameron Bryce (Stirling, SCO) 8-3, then won 7-5 against J.Craik and 9-1 against Orrin Carson (Dumfries, SCO). Mouat won 8-1 against Ross R.Craik (Stirling, SCO), then won 6-5 against Jack Strawhorn (Dumfries, SCO) and 8-0 against Kyle Waddell (Glasgow, SCO). Mouat won 5-1 against Ross Whyte (Stirling, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Scottish Curling Championships Championship title, Mouat earned 41.250 world rankings points. Mouat move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 37.5 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 2nd overall with 345.630 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Mouat ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 283.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	62	25	0	0.713	26-4	13-12	3-5	1-0	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	667	547	373	8.20	5.59	2.61	4.78	3.93	1.71	1.42	1.29

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	315	418	50	45	10-1	29-2	98-3	1.33	0.16	0.51	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	352	129	323	41	1-2	6-16	25-62	0.37	0.92	0.64	0.25

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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