Van Ymeren Runner-Up at 2013 Chatham Granite Cash Spiel

SKIP
Craig
Van Ymeren

Third
Matt
Mapletoft

Second
Scott
Brandon

Lead
Shane
Konings

Craig Van Ymeren (Aylmer, ON) lost 6-5 to Phil Daniel (Chatham, ON) in the Final of the Chatham Granite Cash Spiel, held November 15 - 17, 2013 at the Chatham Granite Club in Chatham, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Van Ymeren won 7-2 over Dale Kelly (Chatham, ON) in the semifinals

Van Ymeren finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Van Ymeren lost 6-3 to Daniel, then responded with a 8-4 win over Jim Brackett (Chatham, ON). Van Ymeren won 7-2 against Brian Glover (Chatham, ON), then won 4-2 against Josh Johnston (Toronto, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Chatham Granite Cash Spiel, Van Ymeren take home 1.750 world rankings points along with the $1,350CDN prize, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 61st place overall with 24.160 total points. Van Ymeren ranks 39th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 17.650 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	23	17	0	0.575	8-4	4-5	3-5	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	290	217	183	7.48	6.31	1.17	4.59	4.14	1.63	1.53	1.28

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	147	172	39	21	6-0	9-0	38-11	1.17	0.27	0.42	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	143	45	144	16	1-2	0-9	7-28	0.31	1.01	0.58	0.24

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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