CHAMPION: Jones Wins 2023 Manitoba Scotties

SKIP
Jennifer
Jones

Third
Mackenzie
Zacharias

Second
Karlee
Burgess

Lead
Emily
Zacharias

Jennifer Jones (Winnipeg, MB) won 10-5 over Meghan Walter (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final Jones advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Manitoba Scotties, held January 25 - 29, 2023 in East St. Paul, Manitoba.

Jones finished 8-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jones defeated Grace Beaudry (Winnipeg, MB) 11-3, then won 8-7 against Kristy Watling (Winnipeg, MB) and 11-3 against Alyssa Calvert (Carberry, MB). Jones won 8-2 against Lisa McLeod (Portage La Prarie, MB), then won 10-7 against Walter and 12-4 against Darcy Robertson (Winnipeg , MB). Jones won 9-7 against Beth Peterson (Winnipeg, MB), then won 9-5 against Kaitlyn Lawes (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Manitoba Scotties Championship title, Jones earned 26.250 world rankings points. For week 26 of the event schedule, Jones did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 8th place on the World Ranking Standings with 252.532 total points. Jones ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 206.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	68	36	0	0.654	27-3	8-13	5-5	0-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	785	716	534	9.12	6.80	2.32	5.12	4.29	1.78	1.58	0.59

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	377	492	115	21	16-1	33-6	100-16	1.31	0.31	0.42	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	408	224	419	25	10-7	14-23	32-97	0.55	1.03	0.50	0.32

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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