CHAMPION: Houston Wins 2014 Tim Hortons Scugog Cup Cash Spiel

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Rob
Houston

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Jeff
Clark

Second
Spencer
Townley

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Rob
Steele

Rob Houston (Uxbridge, ON) won 5-4 over Pat Ferris (Grimsby, ON) in the Final of the Tim Hortons Scugog Cup Cash Spiel, held November 28 - 30, 2014 at the Port Perry Community Curling Club in Port Perry, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Houston won 6-3 over Jon St. Denis (Stouffville, ON) in the semifinals

Houston finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Houston defeated Jim Bell (Toronto, ON) 4-3, then won 5-3 against Dave Fischer (Oshawa, ON) and 8-3 against Nathan Martin (Oshawa, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Tim Hortons Scugog Cup Cash Spiel Championship title, Houston earned 2.500 world rankings points along with the $2,400CDN first prize cheque, moving up 73 spots the World Ranking Standings into 204th place overall with 3.500 total points. Houston ranks 145th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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