CHAMPION: Young Wins 2022 Rick Rowsell Classic

SKIP
Nathan
Young

Third
Sam
Follett

Second
Nathan
Locke

Lead
Ben
Stringer

Nathan Young (St. John's, NL) won 6-3 over Andrew Symonds (St. John's, NL) in the Final of the Rick Rowsell Classic, held September 29 - October 2, 2022 at the Remax Centre in St. John's, . Advancing directly to the semifinals, Young won 4-3 over Ryan McNeil Lamswood (St. John's, NL) to advance to the championship game. of the 2022 Rick Rowsell Classic in St. John's;

Young finished 5-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Young defeated Symonds 8-3, then won 5-3 against Frank O'Driscoll (St. John's, NL) and 7-4 against McNeil Lamswood. Young won 8-0 against Liam Quinlan (St. John's, NL), then won 7-0 against Alex Smith (St. John's, NL) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Rick Rowsell Classic Championship title, Young earned 15.000 world rankings points along with the $5,300CDN first prize cheque. For week 9 of the event schedule, Young did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Young ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

2022: Nathan Young
Nathan Young, Sam Follett, Nathan Locke, Ben Stringer
St. John's, NL
2021: Andrew Symonds
Andrew Symonds, Colin Thomas, Chris Ford, Keith Jewer
St. John's, NL
2019: Colin Thomas
Colin Thomas, Stephen Trickett, Zach Young, Mike Mosher
St. John's, NL

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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