CHAMPION: Tirinzoni Wins 2014 Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown

Aarau, Switzerland

SKIP
Silvana
Tirinzoni

Third
Manuela
Siegrist

Second
Esther
Neuenschwander

Lead
Marlene
Albrecht

Games:	6
Record:	6W - 0L
PF/G:	10.24
PA/G:	5.12
Hammer Efficiency:	0.40
Steal Defense:	0.10
Force Efficiency:	0.62
Steal Efficiency:	0.30

Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) won 7-2 over Eve Muirhead (Stirling, SCO) in the Final of the Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown, held March 27 - 30, 2014 in Grande Prairie, Alberta. To advance to the championship game, Tirinzoni won 5-4 over Valerie Sweeting (Edmonton, AB) in the semifinals of the 2014 Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown in Grande Prairie, Alberta; and won 7-3 over Casey Scheidegger (Lethbridge, AB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2014 Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown in Grande Prairie, Alberta;

Tirinzoni finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tirinzoni defeated Deanne Nichol (Peace River, AB) 9-2, then won 8-5 against Renee Sonnenberg (Grande Prairie, AB) and 6-5 against Sweeting in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Pomeroy Inn & Suites Prairie Showdown Championship title, Tirinzoni earned 19.800 world rankings points along with the $16,000CDN first prize cheque. Tirinzoni move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 14.8 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 10th overall with 221.726 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Tirinzoni ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 112.565 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	58	26	2	0.690	22-8	20-13	6-3	1-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	650	497	392	7.65	6.03	1.62	4.66	3.95	1.64	1.53	1.38

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	305	371	69	42	11-0	26-4	69-10	1.22	0.23	0.40	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	345	126	323	48	1-6	5-19	22-57	0.37	0.94	0.60	0.26

2015: Rachel Homan
Ottawa, ON
2014: Silvana Tirinzoni
Aarau, SUI
2013: Mirjam Ott
Davos, SUI
2012: Shannon Kleibrink
Calgary, AB

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