CHAMPION: Howard Wins 2019 Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic

Penetanguishene, Ontario

SKIP
Glenn
Howard

Third
Scott
Howard

Second
David
Mathers

Lead
Tim
March

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	9.35
PA/G:	5.43
Hammer Efficiency:	0.45
Steal Defense:	0.10
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.32

Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene, ON) won 5-4 over Jamie Murphy (Halifax, NS) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Howard won 6-5 over Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO) in the semifinals of the 2019 Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and won 8-3 over Brent MacDougall (Halifax, NS) in the quarterfinals. of the 2019 Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;

Howard finished 3-1 in the 20 team Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic qualifying round, held November 14 - 17, 2019 at the Halifax Curling Club in Halifax, Canada. In their opening game, Howard lost 6-4 to Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE), then responded with a 7-2 win over Kevin Ouellette (Halifax, NS). Howard won 7-0 against Michael Fournier (Montreal, QC), then won 6-5 against Cameron Bryce (Stirling, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Stu Sells 1824 Halifax Classic Championship title, Howard earned 38.303 world rankings points along with the $11,000CDN first prize cheque. Howard move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 4.078 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 12th overall with 299.447 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Howard ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 122.838 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	6	1	0	0.857	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
2020	46	43	25	9.35	5.43	3.91	5.65	3.48	1.65	1.56	0.87

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	21	32	2	1	1-0	2-0	6-0	1.52	0.10	0.45	0.10

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	25	11	23	3	0-1	0-0	3-6	0.44	0.92	0.50	0.32

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