CHAMPION: Craik Wins 2022 Scottish Curling Junior Championships

SKIP
James
Craik

Third
Angus
Bryce

Second
Scott
Hyslop

Lead
Niall
Ryder

James Craik (Forfar, SCO) won 9-6 over Jack Strawhorn (Dumfries, SCO) in the Final of the Scottish Curling Junior Championships, held November 23 - 28, 2021 in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Craik finished 7-0 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Craik defeated Orrin Carson (Dumfries, SCO) 8-3, then won 10-1 against Ross Craik (Forfar, SCO) and 8-3 against Stewart Kyle (Dumfries, SCO). Craik won 7-4 against Strawhorn, then won 12-2 against Gavin Cameron (Moray, SCO) and 8-3 against Ewan Jackson (Stirling, SCO). Craik won 13-2 against Harry Gow (Borders, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Scottish Curling Junior Championships Championship title, Craik earned 14.844 world rankings points. Craik move up 23 spots after posting a net gain of 11.071 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 83rd overall with 46.609 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Craik ranks 77th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 31.161 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.

CURLING HISTORY: A Prize Letter

In the run up to Christmas Day, 1893, the Aberdeen Peoples's Journal offered a prize of one guinea for the best letter about curling! That's the invitation... (read more)
EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)