CHAMPION: Rocque Wins 2014 M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors

SKIP
Kelsey
Rocque

Third
Keely
Brown

Second
Taylor
McDonald

Lead
Claire
Murray

Kelsey Rocque (Edmonton, AB) won 7-6 over Kalia Van Osch (Nanaimo, BC) in the Final Rocque advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors, held January 18 - 26, 2014 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

Rocque finished 9-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Rocque defeated Camile Boisvert (Levis, PQ) 6-4, then won 6-4 against Van Osch and 15-2 against Sadie Pinksen (Iqualuit, NU). Rocque won 9-8 against Sarah Koltun (Whitehorse, YK), then won 7-5 against Kristen Streifel (Saskatoon, SK) and 7-5 against Carina McKay-Saturnino (Inuvik, NT). Rocque won 8-3 against Molly Greenwood (Waterloo, ON). Rocque went on to lose 6-3 against Mary Fay (Chester, NS). Rocque responded with a 9-4 win over Jessica Daigle (Fredericton, NB). Rocque won 6-4 against Meaghan Brezden (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Juniors Championship title, Rocque earned 8.000 world rankings points, moving up 21 spots the World Ranking Standings into 67th place overall with 18.201 total points. Rocque ranks 53rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	25	10	0	0.714	8-6	14-2	6-0	0-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	298	230	174	7.72	5.84	1.88	4.73	4.06	1.63	1.44	1.21

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	145	169	40	19	6-1	5-0	39-9	1.17	0.28	0.40	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	153	61	134	17	0-1	6-7	6-23	0.40	0.88	0.67	0.28

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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