CHAMPION: Larouche Wins 2017 Experience Curling Classic

SKIP
Marie-France
Larouche

Third
Brenda
Nicholls

Second
Nancy
Belanger

Lead
Julie
Rainville

Marie-France Larouche (Levis, QC) won 8-4 over Catherine Derick (Buckingham, QC) in the Final of the Experience Curling Classic, held November 8 - 12, 2017 at the Baie d'Urfé Curling Club in Baie d'Urfé, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Larouche won 6-2 over Gaetanne Tremblay (Amqui, QC) in the semifinals

Larouche finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Larouche defeated Brigitte Gosselin (Sherbrooke, QC) 9-0, then won 7-5 against Laura Thomas (Montreal, QC) and 6-3 against Derick in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Experience Curling Classic Championship title, Larouche earned 0.000 world rankings points along with the $1,280CDN first prize cheque. For week 14 of the event schedule, Larouche did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 89th to 95th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 40.362 total points. Larouche ranks 306th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 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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