CHAMPION: Sandham/Craig Wins 2023 Ilderton Mixed Doubles Spiel

Riley Sandham/Brendan Craig (Guelph, ON) won 7-6 over Ziqi Dong/Xiu Yue Ma (Beijing, CHN) in the Final of the Ilderton Mixed Doubles Spiel, held November 24 - 26, 2023 at the Ilderton Curling Club in Ilderton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Sandham/Craig won 7-4 over Jessica Zheng/Victor Pietrangelo (Niagara Falls, ON) in the semifinals of the 2023 Ilderton Mixed Doubles Spiel in Ilderton, Ontario, Canada; and won 9-1 over Yu Han/Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 Ilderton Mixed Doubles Spiel in Ilderton, Ontario, Canada;

Sandham/Craig finished 3-0 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sandham/Craig defeated Jessica Guilbault/Eric Fenech (Kingston, ON) 12-3, then won 6-4 against Megan Ford/Daniel Krowchuk (Niagara Falls, ON) and 8-4 against Julie Benson/Bret Jackson (Northville, MI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ilderton Mixed Doubles Spiel Championship title, Sandham/Craig earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $2,500CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 45th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -6.376 after improving upon their best so far this season. Sandham/Craig ranks 44th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 17.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	40	17	0	0.702	8-4	2-2	5-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	399	414	283	10.38	7.09	3.28	5.69	4.24	1.82	1.67	0.08

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	182	255	71	0	17-0	17-3	34-12	1.40	0.39	0.37	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	217	159	212	3	5-9	9-18	28-30	0.73	0.98	0.51	0.45

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