CHAMPION: Menard Wins 2018 Experience Curling Classic

SKIP
Jean-Michel
Menard

Third
Jim
Stewart

Second
Dan
deWaard

Lead
Daniel
Caron

Jean-Michel Menard (Gatineau, QC) won 7-6 over Robin Claveau (Montreal, QC) in the Final of the Experience Curling Classic, held November 7 - 11, 2018 at the Baie d'Urfé Curling Club in Baie d'Urfé, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Menard won 7-3 over Jean-Sebastien Roy (Saguenay, QC) in the semifinals of the 2018 Experience Curling Classic in Baie d'Urfé, Quebec, Canada; and won 6-5 over Steve Holdaway (Montreal, QC) in the quarterfinals.

Menard finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Menard defeated Roy 9-0, then won 6-5 against Ted Butler (Buckingham, QC) and 5-3 against Martin Patry (Buckingham, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Experience Curling Classic Championship title, Menard earned 12.586 world rankings points along with the $1,280CDN first prize cheque, moving up 39 spots the World Ranking Standings into 118th place overall with 32.656 total points. Menard ranks 127th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.834 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

2018: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Jim Stewart, Dan deWaard, Daniel Caron
Gatineau, QC
2017: Jean-Sebastien Roy
Robert Desjardins, Jean-Sebastien Roy, Pierre-Luc Morissette, Thierry Fournier
Chicoutimi, QC
2016: Jean-Sebastien Roy
Jean-Sebastien Roy, Jasmin Gibeau, Dan deWaard, Vincent Bourget
Thurso, QC

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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