CHAMPION: Cotter Wins 2021 Ashley Homestore Classic

SKIP
Jim
Cotter

Third
Tyrel
Griffith

Second
Andrew
Nerpin

Lead
Rick
Sawatsky

Jim Cotter (Vernon, BC) won 5-4 over Rob Nobert (Vernon, BC) in the Final of the Ashley Homestore Classic, held November 18 - 21, 2021 in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. To advance to the championship game, Cotter won 8-2 over Jeff Richard (Kelowna, BC) in the semifinals

Cotter finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Cotter defeated Andrew Cowell (Salmon Arm, BC) 8-1, then won 6-5 against Sean Geall (New Westminster, BC) and 8-5 against Paul Cseke (Victoria, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ashley Homestore Classic Championship title, Cotter earned 14.539 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 8 spots the World Ranking Standings into 41st place overall with 82.588 total points. Cotter ranks 62nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 31.610 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

2021: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Tyrel Griffith, Andrew Nerpin, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC
2003: Darren Smale
Darren Smale, Tobin Senum, John Maskiewich, Lance Yamada
Kamloops, BC
2002: Rick Folk
Rick Folk
, BC
2001: Dave Stephenson
Dave Stephenson
, BC
2000: Cory Heggestad
Dave Stephenson
Kamloops, BC

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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