Jones/Laing Reaches Mixed Doubles Players' Championship Semifinals

Jennifer Jones/Brent Laing (Barrie, ON) run at the Mixed Doubles Players' Championship came to an end in the semifinals with a 6-5 loss to Kristin Moen Skaslien/Magnus Nedregotten (Oslo, NOR). of the Mixed Doubles Players' Championship in Brantford, Ontario; Jones/Laing advanced through the quarterfinals with a 8-3 win over Riley Sandham/Wayne Tuck (Guelph, ON).

Jones/Laing finished 4-0 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jones/Laing defeated Lauren Wasylkiw/Shane Konings (Stouffville, ON) 9-3, then won 8-4 against Madison Kleiter/Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK) and 8-2 against Megan Smith/Doug Thomson (Newmarket, ON). Jones/Laing won 6-4 against Jaelyn Cotter/Jim Cotter (Vernon, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

Jones/Laing earned 27.625 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Mixed Doubles Players' Championship. Jones/Laing move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 27.626 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 810th overall with 80.252 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Jones/Laing ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 80.252 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	21	14	0	0.600	2-1	1-0	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	243	229	170	9.42	7.00	2.43	5.27	4.73	1.79	1.48	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	122	147	61	0	6-0	15-2	20-11	1.20	0.50	0.34	0.38

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	121	82	109	0	1-3	9-3	8-24	0.68	0.90	0.57	0.43

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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