CHAMPION: Kennedy Wins 2017 New Brunswick Pepsi Tankard

SKIP
Mike
Kennedy

Third
Scott
Jones

Second
Marc
LeCocq

Lead
Jamie
Brannen

Mike Kennedy (Fredericton, NB) won 7-5 over Charlie Sullivan (Saint John, NB) in the Final Kennedy advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the New Brunswick Pepsi Tankard, held February 8 - 12, 2017 in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Kennedy finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kennedy defeated Ryan Cain (Fredericton, NB) 9-4, then won 8-5 against Sullivan. Kennedy went on to lose 6-5 against Josh Barry (Fredericton, NB). Kennedy responded with a 6-4 win over Terry Odishaw (Moncton, NB). Kennedy won 8-5 against James Grattan (Oromocto, NB), then won 8-4 against Jason Roach (Saint John, NB) and 6-3 against Jeremy Mallais (Saint John, NB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the New Brunswick Pepsi Tankard Championship title, Kennedy earned 7.350 world rankings points, moving up 7 spots the World Ranking Standings into 83rd place overall with 79.154 total points. Kennedy ranks 81st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 41.845 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

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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