CHAMPION: McDonald Wins 2013 KW Fall Classic

SKIP
Scott
McDonald

Third
Brett
Dekoning

Second
Connor
Duhaime

Lead
Simon
Barrick

Scott McDonald (London, ON) won 8-2 over Jake Walker (Ontario) in the Final To advance to the championship game, McDonald won 5-3 over Rob Rumfeldt (Guelph, ON) in the semifinals of the 2013 KW Fall Classic in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario; and won 6-5 over Aaron Squires (St. Thomas , ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2013 KW Fall Classic in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario;

McDonald finished 3-0 in the 16 team KW Fall Classic qualifying round, held September 26 - 29, 2013 in , . In their opening game, McDonald defeated Pat Ferris (Ontario) 7-6, then won 9-7 against Cory Heggestad (Orillia, ON) and 9-6 against Dennis Moretto (Ontario) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the KW Fall Classic Championship title, McDonald earned 4.500 world rankings points along with the $2,450CDN first prize cheque, moving up 77 spots the World Ranking Standings into 110th place overall with 6.854 total points. McDonald ranks 48th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2021: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle , Greg Drummond
Stirling, SCO
2020: Paul Moffatt
Paul Moffatt, Ben Shane, John Gabel, Kyle Forster
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
2019: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi
Nagano, JPN
2018: Alexey Timofeev
Alexey Timofeev, Alexey Stukalskiy, Artur Razhabov, Artem Shmakov, Sergei Glukhov
St. Petersburg, RUS
2017: Matthew Hall
Matthew Hall, Jeff Wanless, Joey Hart, David Hart
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
2016: Richard Krell
Richard Krell, Evan Lilly, Jonah Mondloch, Robert Currie
Waterloo, ON
2015: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, De Xin Ba, Xiao Ming Xu
Harbin, CHN
2014: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Brett Dekoning, Scott Brandon, Shane Konings
London, ON
2013: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Brett Dekoning, Connor Duhaime, Simon Barrick
London, ON
2012: Mark Kean
Mark Kean, Travis Fanset, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2011: Rob Rumfeldt
Rob Rumfeldt, Adam Spencer, Scott Hodgson, Greg Robinson
Guelph, ON
2010: Greg Balsdon
Greg Balsdon, Chris Ciasnocha, Tyler Morgan, Jamie Farnell
Kingston, ON
2009: Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett, Ryan Werenich, Jeff Gorda, Shawn Kaufman
Bradford, ON
2008: Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett, Ryan Werenich, Jeff Gorda, Shawn Kaufman
Churchill, ON

After stumbling in their opener, Winnipeg's Matt Dunstone (photo: Stan Fong, Hardline) evens their record with a 7-4 win over Scotland's Bruce Mouat.

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