CHAMPION: Lawton Wins 2012 Sun Life Financial Players' Championship

SKIP
Stefanie
Lawton

Third
Sherry
Anderson

Second
Sherri
Singler

Lead
Marliese
Kasner

Stefanie Lawton (Saskatoon, SK) won 7-3 over Cathy Overton-Clapham (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Lawton won 6-3 over Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2012 Sun Life Financial Players' Championship in Summerside, Prince Edward Island;

Lawton finished 5-2 in the 8 team Sun Life Financial Players' Championship qualifying round, held April 17 - 22, 2012 in , . In their opening game, Lawton defeated Jones 7-2, then won 7-6 against Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) and 7-3 against Eve Muirhead (Perth, SCO). Lawton went on to lose 7-3 against Overton-Clapham. Lawton lost 7-6 to Heather Nedohin (Edmonton, AB) where Lawton responded with a 6-5 win over Sherry Middaugh (Coldwater, ON). Lawton won 7-2 against Chelsea Carey (Morden, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Sun Life Financial Players' Championship Championship title, Lawton earned 45.000 world rankings points along with the $28,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 3rd place overall with 279.200 total points. Lawton ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 133.310 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	7	2	0	0.778	3-1	4-1	2-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	63	56	38	8.89	6.03	2.86	5.56	3.97	1.60	1.52	0.48

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	28	42	5	1	2-0	2-0	9-1	1.50	0.18	0.48	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	35	14	33	2	0-1	0-1	2-5	0.40	0.94	0.67	0.34

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