CHAMPION: Sturmay Wins 2022 McKee Homes Fall Curling Classic

Edmonton, Alberta

SKIP
Karsten
Sturmay

Third
Kyle
Doering

Second
Kurtis
Goller

Lead
Glenn
Venance

Games:	6
Record:	6W - 0L
PF/G:	10.77
PA/G:	4.10
Hammer Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Defense:	0.06
Force Efficiency:	0.70
Steal Efficiency:	0.36

Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) won 7-0 over Ryan Parent (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the McKee Homes Fall Curling Classic, held October 7 - 10, 2022 at the Airdrie Curling Club in Airdrie, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Sturmay won 6-4 over Aaron Sluchinski (Calgary, AB) in the semifinals of the 2022 McKee Homes Fall Curling Classic in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada; and won 6-1 over Cole Adams (Calgary, AB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2022 McKee Homes Fall Curling Classic in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada;

Sturmay finished 3-0 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sturmay defeated Warren Kozak (Calgary, AB) 8-2, then won 7-6 against Warren Cross (Edmonton, AB) and 8-3 against Parent in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the McKee Homes Fall Curling Classic Championship title, Sturmay earned 22.500 world rankings points along with the $3,200CDN first prize cheque. Sturmay move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 7.251 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 19th overall with 142.245 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sturmay ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 66.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	60	28	0	0.682	9-2	10-9	3-3	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	624	509	380	8.16	6.09	2.07	4.89	3.96	1.67	1.54	1.15

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	301	371	76	38	9-1	27-2	79-13	1.23	0.25	0.44	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	323	138	304	34	1-8	6-20	24-49	0.43	0.94	0.60	0.30

2023: Xueqing Fei
Xueqing Fei, Tianqi Guan, Zhichao Li, Xingyin Xie, Jianjun Ye, Xiao Ming Xu
Beijing, CHN
2022: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Kyle Doering, Kurtis Goller, Glenn Venance, JD Lind
Edmonton, AB
2021: Warren Cross
Warren Cross, Tyler Pfeiffer, Morgan Van Doesburg, Mike Lambert
Edmonton, AB
2020: Ryan Jacques
Ryan Jacques, Desmond Young, Andrew Gittis, Gabriel Dyck
Edmonton, AB
2019: Jeremy Harty
Jeremy Harty, Kyler Kleibrink, Joel Berger, Kurtis Goller
Calgary, AB
2018: Jeremy Harty
Jeremy Harty, Kyler Kleibrink, Joel Berger, Kurtis Goller
,
2017: Kevin Park
Kevin Park, Shane Park, Robert Collins, Ben Savage
Edmonton, AB
2016: Glen Hansen
Glen Hansen, Dean Ross, Don Bartlett, George Parsons
Edmonton, AB
2015: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Justin Sluchinski, Dylan Webster, Eric Richard
, AB
2014: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Justin Sluchinski, Dylan Webster, Eric Richard
, AB
2013: Matthew Blandford
Matthew Blandford, Darren Moulding, Brent Hamilton, Brad Chyz
Calgary, AB

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