CHAMPION: Kean Wins 2015 Recharge with Milk Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Mark
Kean

Third
Mathew
Camm

Second
David
Mathers

Lead
Scott
Howard

Mark Kean (Fenelon Falls, ON) won 7-6 over John Epping (Toronto, ON) in the Final of the Recharge with Milk Ontario Tankard, held February 2 - 8, 2015 in Thames Centre, Ontario.

Kean finished 8-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kean defeated Colin Dow (Ottawa, ON) 8-3, then won 9-3 against Joe Frans (St Thomas , ON) and 9-3 against Greg Balsdon (Hamilton, ON). Kean won 9-4 against Aaron Squires (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON). Kean went on to lose 10-5 against Rob Rumfeldt (Guelph, ON). Kean lost 9-8 to Jon St. Denis (Listowel, ON) where Kean responded with a 10-5 win over Peter Corner (Toronto, ON). Kean won 9-3 against Ian MacAulay (Ottawa, ON), then won 6-2 against Epping and 6-5 against Cory Heggestad (Markdale, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Recharge with Milk Ontario Tankard Championship title, Kean earned 14.480 world rankings points, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 20th place overall with 102.564 total points. Kean ranks 18th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 53.100 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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