Symonds Runner-Up at 2022 Rick Rowsell Classic

SKIP
Andrew
Symonds

Third
Colin
Thomas

Second
Stephen
Trickett

Lead
Keith
Jewer

Andrew Symonds (St. John's, NL) lost 6-3 to Nathan Young (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, . To advance to the championship game, Symonds won 9-7 over Greg Smith (St. John's, NL) in the semifinals of the 2022 Rick Rowsell Classic in St. John's; and won 10-3 over Trent Skanes (St. John's, NL) in the quarterfinals. of the 2022 Rick Rowsell Classic in St. John's;

Symonds finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Symonds lost 8-3 to Young, then responded with a 6-4 win over Ryan McNeil Lamswood (St. John's, NL). Symonds won 5-4 against Alex Smith (St. John's, NL), then won 11-4 against Frank O'Driscoll (St. John's, NL) and 5-4 against Liam Quinlan (St. John's, NL) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Rick Rowsell Classic, Symonds take home 11.000 world rankings points along with the $3,400CDN prize, moving up 31 spots the World Ranking Standings into 109th place overall with 25.831 total points. Symonds ranks 68th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 11.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	18	10	0	0.643	4-1	0-4	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	198	168	128	8.48	6.46	2.02	4.65	4.09	1.83	1.58	1.26

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	97	131	17	12	3-0	12-0	23-3	1.35	0.18	0.45	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	101	37	111	13	0-0	4-8	8-28	0.37	1.10	0.46	0.21

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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