CHAMPION: Howard Wins 2021 Oakville Fall Classic

SKIP
Glenn
Howard

Third
Scott
Howard

Second
David
Mathers

Lead
Tim
March

Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene, ON) won 6-2 over Tanner Horgan (Kingston, ON) in the Final of the Oakville Fall Classic, held August 27 - 29, 2021 at the Oakville Curling Club in Oakville, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Howard won 5-2 over Pat Ferris (Grimsby, ON) in the semifinals of the 2021 Oakville Fall Classic in Oakville, Ontario, Canada; and won 9-1 over Jordan McNamara (Ottawa, ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2021 Oakville Fall Classic in Oakville, Ontario, Canada;

Howard finished 3-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Howard lost 5-3 to Mark Kean (Toronto, ON), then responded with a 7-1 win over Yannick Martel (Saguenay, QC). Howard won 5-2 against Sam Mooibroek (Kitchener, ON), then won 9-5 against Vincent Roberge (Quebec, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Oakville Fall Classic Championship title, Howard earned 0.000 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN first prize cheque. For week 5 of the event schedule, Howard did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 19th place on the World Ranking Standings with 92.273 total points. Howard ranks 376th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	52	27	0	0.658	19-7	11-5	5-5	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	616	461	336	7.48	5.45	2.03	4.42	3.85	1.69	1.42	1.74

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	302	344	74	54	13-1	16-3	80-9	1.14	0.25	0.44	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	314	117	262	53	4-2	4-7	17-61	0.37	0.83	0.61	0.25

2019: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2018: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
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2017: Bruce Mouat
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2016: Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Kyle Waddell, Cameron Smith
Stirling, SCO
2015: Codey Maus
Scott McDonald, Codey Maus, Wesley Forget, Jeff Grant, Brian Chick
London, ON

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