Frans4-6 at 2015 Recharge with Milk Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Joe
Frans

Third
Craig
Van Ymeren

Second
Bowie
Abbis-Mills

Lead
Jeff
Gorda

Joe Frans (St Thomas , ON) finished 4-6 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Frans lost 8-5 to Aaron Squires (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON), droppimg another game, 9-3 to Mark Kean (Fenelon Falls, ON) where Frans responded with a 9-8 win over Rob Rumfeldt (Guelph, ON). Frans won 8-3 against Jon St. Denis (Listowel, ON). Frans went on to lose 7-6 against Peter Corner (Toronto, ON). Frans responded with a 8-5 win over Ian MacAulay (Ottawa, ON). Frans went on to lose 6-5 against John Epping (Toronto, ON). Frans responded with a 8-5 win over Cory Heggestad (Markdale, ON). Frans went on to lose 5-3 against Colin Dow (Ottawa, ON). Frans lost 8-3 to Greg Balsdon (Hamilton, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Frans earned 1.738 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, dropping 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 34th place overall with 51.833 total points. Frans ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 30.373 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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