CHAMPION: Murphy Wins 2014 Nova Scotia Molson Coors Tankard

SKIP
Jamie
Murphy

Third
Jordan
Pinder

Second
Mike
Bardsley

Lead
Don
McDermaid

Jamie Murphy (Lakeshore, NS) won 12-8 over Mark Dacey (Halifax, NS) in the Final of the Nova Scotia Molson Coors Tankard, held February 4 - 9, 2014 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Murphy finished 6-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Murphy lost 6-5 to Mark Kehoe (Halifax, NS), then responded with a 7-3 win over John Luckhurst (Halifax, NS). Murphy won 9-5 against Chad Stevens (Halifax, NS), then won 5-4 against Ian Fitzner-Leblanc (Lakeshore, NS) and 8-2 against Tommy Sullivan (Halifax, NS). Murphy won 11-7 against Peter Burgess (Truro, NS), then won 6-3 against Dacey in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Nova Scotia Molson Coors Tankard Championship title, Murphy earned 5.200 world rankings points, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 56th place overall with 32.358 total points. Murphy ranks 86th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.565 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	25	27	0	0.481	10-11	8-10	3-5	1-1	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	425	302	293	7.11	6.89	0.21	4.38	4.49	1.62	1.53	1.13

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	217	241	74	25	6-0	14-3	53-16	1.11	0.34	0.38	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	208	61	219	23	0-1	3-10	9-57	0.29	1.05	0.51	0.22

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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