McDonald Reaches New Holland Canadian Junior Championships Quarters

SKIP
Jordon
McDonald

Third
Dallas
Burgess

Second
Elias
Huminicki

Lead
Cameron
Olafson

Jordon McDonald (Assiniboine, MB) qualified for the New Holland Canadian Junior Championships playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-5 against Jace Freeman (Virden, MB). of the New Holland Canadian Junior Championships in Fort McMurray, Alberta;

McDonald finished 7-1 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, McDonald defeated Adam Fenton (New Westminster, BC) 10-5, then won 9-5 against Matthew Drewitz (Saskatoon, SK) and 12-2 against Adam Bedard (Noranda, QC). McDonald won 7-5 against Jamie Stewart (Fredericton, NB), then won 11-3 against Tyler MacTavish (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON) and 9-3 against Nick Mosher (Halifax, NS). McDonald won 6-4 against Parker Tipple (St. John's, NL). McDonald went on to lose 8-7 against Dylan Derksen (Martensville, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

McDonald earned 3.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the New Holland Canadian Junior Championships . For week 36 of the event schedule, McDonald did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 51st place on the World Ranking Standings with 66.063 total points. McDonald ranks 51st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 66.063 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	49	16	0	0.754	8-1	3-2	5-1	1-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	422	374	221	8.86	5.24	3.63	5.12	3.55	1.73	1.47	1.33

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	193	241	45	22	7-1	18-2	45-4	1.25	0.23	0.41	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	229	133	176	34	3-2	14-9	16-36	0.58	0.77	0.59	0.35

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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