Smith3-3 at New Brunswick Pepsi Tankard Preliminary

SKIP
Chris
Smith

Third
Scott
Kidd

Second
Mark
McKinnon

Lead
Mark
Hudson

Chris Smith (Saint John, NB) finished 3-3 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Smith lost 9-8 to Rick Perron (Moncton, NB), then responded with a 9-7 win over Peter Case (Saint John, NB). Smith won 8-6 against Wayne Tallon (Fredericton, NB), then won 9-7 against Perron. Smith went on to lose 10-8 against Jeremy Mallais (Saint John, NB). Smith lost 8-1 to Tallon in their final qualifying round match.

Smith earned 1.318 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 41 spots the World Ranking Standings into 354th place overall with 2.739 total points. Smith ranks 330th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.318 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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