The 2023
Stu Sells Oakville Tankard was held from September 7 to 10 at the
Oakville Curling Club in
Oakville,
Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the Population of Canada by province and territory, country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it ...
. The event was held in a
round robin format with a purse of $30,000 on both the men's and women's sides. It was the first Stu Sells sponsored event held as part of the
2023–24 season.
The 2023 event was dominated by the three Scottish teams in the field who all reached the final. The men's championship saw the
reigning world champions Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat (; born 27 August 1994 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. He currently skips his own team out of the Gogar Park Curling Club. Mouat has led his team to two world championship titles in and , four European championsh ...
rink, with
Grant Hardie
Grant Hardie (born 27 March 1992 in Dumfries) is a Scottish curler from Glasgow. He currently plays third on Team Bruce Mouat. With Mouat, Hardie has won gold at the world men's championship in and and has captured four European championship ...
,
Bobby Lammie
Robert "Bobby" Lammie (born 10 February 1997 in Dumfries) is a Scottish curler, originally from Stranraer, who now resides in Stirling. He currently plays second on Team Bruce Mouat. With Mouat, Lammie has won gold at the world men's championsh ...
and
Hammy McMillan Jr. from Edinburgh defeat the
Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte (born 31 August 1998 in York, England) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. Skipping his own team, Whyte has won silver at the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships and won bronze at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships and ...
rink 6–2. Both teams entered the final with six straight wins in the event after going through the round robin undefeated. After Mouat got out to an early three-point lead, Whyte stole a single in the seventh to make the score 3–2 coming home where Bruce Mouat sealed the victory for his team. In the semifinals, Mouat won 5–1 over
John Shuster
John “Shoostie” Shuster ( ; born November 3, 1982) is an American curler who lives in Superior, Wisconsin. He led Team USA to gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the first American team to ever win gold in curling. He also won a bronze medal a ...
while Whyte bested
John Epping
John Allan Epping (born March 20, 1983) is a Canadian curler from Toronto, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of the Leaside Curling Club in East York, Toronto.
Career
Junior Men's
Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Epping was a top ...
7–2. It was the second final Mouat had won over Whyte to begin the 2023–24 season as he also won the
2023 Euro Super Series three weeks prior.
The lone Scottish women's team
Rebecca Morrison
Rebecca Morrison (born 22 August 1996) is a Scottish curler from Glasgow. She currently throws fourth stones on her team out of Stirling which is skipped by Sophie Jackson. The team won the 2022 Scottish Curling Championships in Dumfries.
C ...
also reached the final game where they fell 5–4 to South Korea's
Ha Seung-youn
Ha Seung-youn (born May 19, 2000) is a South Korean curler from Uijeongbu. She is the skip of the Chuncheon City Hall curling team. While playing with Kim Min-ji, she won a silver medal at the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships.
Career
...
rink from Chuncheon. Ha, with
Kim Hye-rin
Kim Hye-rin (; born 19 May 1995) is a South Korean badminton player. In 2013, she won the mixed doubles title at the Romanian International tournament partnered with Choi Sol-gyu. In 2017, she won the silver medal at the Asia Championships in ...
,
Yang Tae-i
Yang Tae-i (born December 6, 1999) is a South Korean curler from Uijeongbu. She currently plays second on the Chuncheon City Hall curling team, skipped by Ha Seung-youn. While playing with Kim Min-ji, she won a gold medal at the 2018 Pacific-A ...
and
Kim Su-jin took a single in an extra end to claim their first championship of the season. After winning the
2022 Korean Curling Championships
The 2022 Korean Curling Championships (branded as the 2022 KB Financial Group, KB Financial Korean Curling Championships), Korea's national curling championships, were held from June 11 to 17 at the Jincheon National Training Centre in Jincheon C ...
to become the national team for the
2022–23 season, Chuncheon City Hall finished third at the
2023 championship, losing their title to Gyeonggi Province's
Gim Eun-ji
Gim Eun-ji also known as Gim Un-chi (born January 23, 1990) is a Korean curler from Uijeongbu. She currently skips the Gyeonggi Province curling team.
Career
Gim played as lead in her first world championship at the 2011 Capital One World W ...
rink. The Ha rink advanced to the final after routing
Delaney Strouse 7–0 while Morrison breezed past
Tabitha Peterson
Tabitha Skelly Peterson (born March 6, 1989) is an American curler from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was a bronze medalist at the 2010 World Junior Championships and is a three-time women's national champion. She currently is skip of her own t ...
8–3 in the other semifinal game.
Men
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round robin standings
''Final Round Robin Standings''
Round robin results
All draw times are listed in
Eastern Time
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* Eastern Standard Time (EST) is five hours behi ...
(
UTC−04:00).
Draw 1
''Thursday, September 7, 12:00 pm''
Draw 2
''Thursday, September 7, 3:00 pm''
Draw 3
''Friday, September 8, 8:00 am''
Draw 4
''Friday, September 8, 11:00 am''
Draw 5
''Friday, September 8, 2:00 pm''
Draw 6
''Friday, September 8, 5:00 pm''
Draw 7
''Friday, September 8, 8:00 pm''
Draw 8
''Saturday, September 9, 8:30 am''
Draw 9
''Saturday, September 9, 10:30 am''
Draw 10
''Saturday, September 9, 2:00 pm''
Draw 11
''Saturday, September 9, 4:30 pm''
Draw 12
''Saturday, September 9, 7:30 pm''
Playoffs
Qualification Games
''Saturday, September 9, 10:00 pm''
Quarterfinals
''Sunday, September 10, 8:30 am''
Semifinals
''Sunday, September 10, 12:00 pm''
Final
''Sunday, September 10, 3:30 pm''
Women
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round robin standings
''Final Round Robin Standings''
Round robin results
All draw times are listed in
Eastern Time
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.
* Eastern Standard Time (EST) is five hours behi ...
(
UTC−04:00).
Draw 1
''Thursday, September 7, 12:00 pm''
Draw 2
''Thursday, September 7, 3:00 pm''
Draw 3
''Friday, September 8, 8:00 am''
Draw 4
''Friday, September 8, 11:00 am''
Draw 5
''Friday, September 8, 2:00 pm''
Draw 6
''Friday, September 8, 5:00 pm''
Draw 7
''Friday, September 8, 8:00 pm''
Draw 8
''Saturday, September 9, 8:30 am''
Draw 9
''Saturday, September 9, 10:30 am''
Draw 10
''Saturday, September 9, 2:00 pm''
Draw 11
''Saturday, September 9, 4:30 pm''
Draw 12
''Saturday, September 9, 7:30 pm''
Playoffs
Qualification Games
''Saturday, September 9, 10:00 pm''
Quarterfinals
''Sunday, September 10, 8:30 am''
Semifinals
''Sunday, September 10, 12:00 pm''
Final
''Sunday, September 10, 3:30 pm''
Notes
References
External links
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