CHAMPION: Epping Wins 2020 Ontario Tankard

SKIP
John
Epping

Third
Ryan
Fry

Second
Mathew
Camm

Lead
Brent
Laing

John Epping (Toronto, ON) won 8-3 over Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene , ON) in the Final Epping advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Ontario Tankard, held January 28 - February 2, 2020 in Cornwall, Ontario.

Epping finished 8-0 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Epping defeated Steve Allen (Ottawa, ON) 8-4, then won 7-5 against Pat Ferris (Grimsby, ON) and 10-4 against John Willsey (Waterloo, ON). Epping won 7-6 against Matthew Hall (Kitchener, ON), then won 5-4 against Jason Camm (Ottawa, ON) and 9-5 against Howard. Epping won 10-8 against Scott McDonald (Kingston, ON), then won 9-2 against Mark Kean (London, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ontario Tankard Championship title, Epping earned 22.838 world rankings points, remaining in 2nd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 18.298 after improving upon their best so far this season. Epping ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 438.075 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

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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