CHAMPION: Kleiter/Kleiter Wins 2023 Curling Stadium SaskTour Mixed Doubles Series

Madison Kleiter/Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK) won 6-5 over Ashley Thevenot/Dustin Kalthoff (Saskatoon, SK) in the Final of the Curling Stadium SaskTour Mixed Doubles Series, held November 10 - 12, 2023 at the Martensville Curling Club in Martensville, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Kleiter/Kleiter won 5-4 over Chaelynn Kitz/Brayden Stewart (Minnedosa, MB) in the semifinals of the 2023 Curling Stadium SaskTour Mixed Doubles Series in Martensville, Saskatchewan, Canada; and won 8-1 over Kirstin Nickel/Gabriel Nickel (Hudson, WI) in the quarterfinals.

Kleiter/Kleiter finished 4-0 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kleiter/Kleiter defeated Kya Kennedy/Landon Field (Saskatoon, SK) 11-4, then won 7-1 against Sherry Just/Chad Gareau (Prince Albert, SK) and 7-6 against Michelle Englot/Derek Schneider (Regina, SK). Kleiter/Kleiter won 9-4 against Sherry Smith/Jeff Henfrey (Saskatoon, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Curling Stadium SaskTour Mixed Doubles Series Championship title, Kleiter/Kleiter earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $1,500CDN first prize cheque. Kleiter/Kleiter move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 9.375 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 30th overall with 71.541 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kleiter/Kleiter ranks 26th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	18	8	0	0.692	0-1	0-0	0-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	188	183	136	9.73	7.23	2.50	5.43	4.57	1.79	1.58	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	81	106	33	0	6-0	9-0	14-5	1.31	0.41	0.36	0.35

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	107	77	103	0	2-4	3-7	16-18	0.72	0.96	0.50	0.46

Duluth's Korey Dropkin (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) is set to begin their tour season at the Euro Super Series in Stirling, Scotland.

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