CHAMPION: Ostlund Wins 2016 Swedish National Championship

SKIP
Cissi
Ostlund

Third
Sabina
Kraupp

Second
Sara
Carlsson

Lead
Paulina
Stein

Cissi Ostlund (Karlstad, SWE) won 6-4 over Isabella Wrana (Stockholm, SWE) in the Final Ostlund advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Swedish National Championship, held January 27 - 31, 2016 in Pitea, Sweden.

Ostlund are currently 6-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ostlund defeated Tova Sundberg (Ostersund, SWE) 6-4, then won 5-2 against Wrana and 7-6 against Anna Hasselborg (Stockholm, SWE). Ostlund won 6-5 against Karin Rudstrom (Gavle, SWE), then won 7-3 against Towe Lundman (Uppsala, SWE) and 9-2 against Margaretha Sigfridsson (Sundsvall, SWE). In their next game, Ostlund plays.

For winning the Swedish National Championship Championship title, Ostlund earned 14.280 world rankings points. Ostlund move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 11.586 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 28th overall with 163.605 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ostlund ranks 25th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 111.565 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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