Shepherd5-3 at Dairy Farmers of Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Michael
Shepherd

Third
Jordan
Keon

Second
Curtis
Samoy

Lead
Michael
Keon

Michael Shepherd (Richmond Hill, ON) finished 5-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shepherd defeated Spencer Richmond (Ottawa, ON) 9-7, then went on to lose 8-4 against Dayna Deruelle (Brampton, ON). Shepherd responded with a 11-6 win over Connor Duhaime (Cookstown, ON). Shepherd went on to lose 7-6 against Mike McLean (Ottawa, ON). Shepherd responded with a 7-3 win over Dennis Moretto (Mississauga, ON). Shepherd won 8-7 against Rob Lobel (Toronto, ON), then won 9-4 against Deruelle. Shepherd went on to lose 9-3 against McLean in their final qualifying round match.

Shepherd earned 3.391 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 16 spots the World Ranking Standings into 176th place overall with 23.755 total points. Shepherd ranks 217th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.702 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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