Varnes1-2 at MCT Curling Cup

SKIP
Rhonda
Varnes

Third
Joanne
Tarvit

Second
Mikaylah
Lyburn

Lead
Cheyenne
Ehnes

Rhonda Varnes (Winnipeg, MB) finished 1-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Varnes lost 7-2 to Kim Rhyme (Minneapolis, MN), then responded with a 8-7 win over Katy Lukowich (Winnipeg, MB). Varnes went on to lose 8-5 against Christine McMakin (Minneapolis, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Varnes earned 0.563 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Varnes gained -1.172 points improving upon their best 5 events, though dropped 2 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 122ndplace overall with 15.066 total points. Varnes ranks 120th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.126 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	8	17	0	0.320	2-5	2-3	0-3	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	180	115	142	6.39	7.89	-1.50	4.22	4.94	1.51	1.60	0.83

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	92	84	46	7	4-1	3-3	11-7	0.91	0.50	0.21	0.33

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	88	31	96	8	0-0	2-8	6-21	0.35	1.09	0.51	0.24

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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