CHAMPION: Carson Wins 2024 Scottish Curling Junior Championships

Dumfries, Scotland

SKIP
Orrin
Carson

Third
Logan
Carson

Second
Archie
Hyslop

Lead
Charlie
Gibb

Games:	9
Record:	8W - 1L
PF/G:	10.14
PA/G:	5.34
Hammer Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.65
Steal Efficiency:	0.34

Orrin Carson (Dumfries, SCO) won 7-6 over Jack Strawhorn (Dumfries, SCO) in the Final of the Scottish Curling Junior Championships, held November 10 - 15, 2023 at the Curl Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Carson finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Carson defeated Ethan Brewster (Aberdeen, SCO) 9-1, then won 11-5 against Callum Grant (Greenacres, SCO) and 10-8 against Fraser Swanston (Forfar, SCO). Carson won 9-4 against Arran Thomson (Perth, SCO), then won 7-2 against Ross Craik (Forfar, SCO) and 8-2 against Finlay Rutherford (Kinross, SCO). Carson went on to lose 7-2 against Strawhorn in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Scottish Curling Junior Championships Championship title, Carson earned 3.750 world rankings points, moving up 10 spots the World Ranking Standings into 113th place overall with 25.125 total points. Carson ranks 167th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 6.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	21	23	0	0.477	3-6	2-9	2-2	1-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	350	270	256	7.71	7.31	0.40	4.49	4.34	1.72	1.68	1.17

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	169	205	61	15	2-1	21-4	42-11	1.21	0.36	0.42	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	181	65	195	26	0-6	6-11	11-42	0.36	1.08	0.48	0.23

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