CHAMPION: Young Wins 2023 Rick Rowsell Classic

SKIP
Nathan
Young

Third
Sam
Follett

Second
Nathan
Locke

Lead
Ben
Stringer

Nathan Young (St. Johns, NL) won 8-4 over Andrew Symonds (St. John's, NL) in the Final of the Rick Rowsell Classic, held September 21 - 24, 2023 at the Remax Centre in St. John's, . To advance to the championship game, Young won 8-4 over Greg Smith (St. John's , NL) in the semifinals of the 2023 Rick Rowsell Classic in St. John's; and won 8-4 over Ryan McNeil Lamswood (St. John's, NL) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 Rick Rowsell Classic in St. John's;

Young finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Young defeated Randy Turpin (St. John's, NL) 8-4, then won 8-4 against Dylan Hancock (St. John's, NL) and 8-4 against Ken Peddigrew (St. John's, NL). Young won 8-4 against Dave Thomas (Port-aux-Basques, NL). Young went on to lose 8-3 against Symonds in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Rick Rowsell Classic Championship title, Young earned 7.500 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 52nd place overall with 81.750 total points. Young ranks 42nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 20.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	18	10	0	0.643	1-1	2-2	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	210	168	144	8.00	6.86	1.14	4.38	4.38	1.83	1.57	1.24

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	106	135	26	15	5-0	4-1	39-6	1.27	0.25	0.53	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	104	33	118	11	1-3	2-4	7-24	0.32	1.13	0.58	0.18

2024: Simon Perry
Simon Perry, Nicholas Codner, Brayden Snow, Carter Holden
St. John's, NL
2023: Nathan Young
Nathan Young, Sam Follett, Nathan Locke, Ben Stringer , Jeff Thomas
St. Johns, NL
2022: Nathan Young
Nathan Young, Sam Follett, Nathan Locke, Ben Stringer
St. John's, NL
2021: Andrew Symonds
Andrew Symonds, Colin Thomas, Chris Ford, Keith Jewer
St. John's, NL
2019: Colin Thomas
Colin Thomas, Stephen Trickett, Zach Young, Mike Mosher
St. John's, NL

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