CHAMPION: Howard Wins 2018 Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic

SKIP
Scott
Howard

Third
Adam
Spencer

Second
David
Mathers

Lead
Tim
March

Scott Howard (Penetanguishe, ON) won 8-4 over Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Howard won 9-1 over Michael Fournier () in the semifinals of the 2018 Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and won 4-3 over Jamie Murphy () in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;

Howard finished 3-0 in the 16 team Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic qualifying round, held November 15 - 18, 2018 at the Halifax Curling Club in Halifax, Canada. In their opening game, Howard defeated Kevin Ouellette (Halifax, NS) 8-4, then won 7-2 against Jan Hess (Zug, SUI) and 5-4 against Murphy in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic Championship title, Howard earned 35.065 world rankings points along with the $8,000CDN first prize cheque. Howard move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 11.319 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 9th overall with 324.195 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Howard ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 181.720 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	6	0	0	1.000	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	42	41	18	9.76	4.29	5.48	5.71	3.10	1.71	1.38	1.19

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	19	23	6	2	1-0	1-0	4-1	1.21	0.32	0.35	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	23	18	12	3	1-0	0-0	3-4	0.78	0.52	0.50	0.52

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