Despins Reaches 2025 Northern Ontario Women's Provincial Semifinals

SKIP
Robyn
Despins

Third
Nicole
Westlund Stewart

Second
Samantha
Morris

Lead
Rebecca
Carr

Robyn Despins (Thunder Bay, NO) run at the 2025 Northern Ontario Women's Provincial came to an end in the semifinals with a 9-4 loss to Krista McCarville (Thunder Bay, NO). of the 2025 Northern Ontario Women's Provincial in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada;

Despins finished 5-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Despins lost 10-3 to Emma Artichuk (Sudbury, NO), then responded with a 8-3 win over Laura Johnston (North Bay, NO). Despins won 9-4 against Ashley Palmer (Thunder Bay, NO), then won 7-2 against Claire Dubinsky (Kakabeka Falls, NO) and 6-5 against McCarville. Despins won 9-8 against Lauren Mann (Timmins, NO) in their final qualifying round match.

Despins earned 4.250 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Northern Ontario Women's Provincial, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 103rd place overall with 21.156 total points. Despins ranks 93rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 20.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	1	4	0	0.200	0-3	1-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	37	24	31	6.49	8.38	-1.89	4.32	5.14	1.50	1.63	0.54

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	20	21	9	1	0-0	2-1	4-1	1.05	0.45	0.32	0.30

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	17	3	22	1	0-0	0-2	0-5	0.18	1.29	0.46	0.18

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