CHAMPION: Sweeting Wins 2014 Jiffy Lube Alberta Scotties

SKIP
Val
Sweeting

Third
Joanne
Courtney

Second
Dana
Ferguson

Lead
Rachel
Brown

Valerie Sweeting (Edmonton, AB) won 8-4 over Cheryl Bernard (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the Jiffy Lube Alberta Scotties, held January 8 - 12, 2014 in Sylvan Lake, Alberta.

Sweeting finished 3-0 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sweeting defeated Tiffany Steuber (Spruce Grove, AB) 6-3, then won 8-5 against Casey Scheidegger (Lethbridge, AB) and 8-6 against Heather Nedohin (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Jiffy Lube Alberta Scotties Championship title, Sweeting earned 15.840 world rankings points, remaining in 13th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 11.5 after improving upon their best so far this season. Sweeting ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 113.840 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	54	29	0	0.651	23-11	22-10	10-7	5-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	695	508	416	7.31	5.99	1.32	4.59	4.14	1.59	1.44	1.27

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	328	377	80	37	6-0	17-4	93-13	1.15	0.24	0.40	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	367	131	336	51	1-4	8-13	25-67	0.36	0.92	0.63	0.24

2014: Val Sweeting
Val Sweeting, Joanne Courtney, Dana Ferguson, Rachel Brown
Edmonton, AB
2015: Val Sweeting
Val Sweeting, Lori Olson-Johns, Dana Ferguson, Rachel Brown
Edmonton, AB
2016: Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Carey, Amy Nixon, Jocelyn Peterman, Laine Peters
Calgary, AB
2017: Shannon Kleibrink
Shannon Kleibrink, Lisa Eyamie, Sarah Wilkes, Alison Thiessen, Heather Nedohin
Okotoks, AB
2018: Casey Scheidegger
Casey Scheidegger, Cary-Anne McTaggart, Jessie Haughian, Kristie Moore
Grande Prairie, AB

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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