Kowalchuk0-5 at 2012 Courtesy Freight Northern Ontario Superspiel

SKIP
Ron
Kowalchuk

Third
Ed
Pedersen

Second
Ernie
Surkan

Lead
John
Bird

Ron Kowalchuk (Thunder Bay, ON) finished 0-5 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kowalchuk lost 8-6 to Northern Ontario's Brian Adams Jr., droppimg another game, 7-1 to Bryan Burgess (Thunder Bay, ). Kowalchuk lost 6-1 to Brennan Wark (Thunder Bay, ON). Kowalchuk lost 6-5 to Jeff MacDonald (Thunder Bay, ON). Kowalchuk lost 7-1 to Pete Fenson (Bemidji, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

. For week 13 of the event schedule, Kowalchuk did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 517th to 524th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 0.000 total points. Kowalchuk ranks 229th 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

2012: Al Hackner
Al Hackner, Kory Carr, Kristofer Leupen, Gary Champagne
Thunder Bay, NONT
2011: Colin Koivula
Colin Koivula, Eric Theriault, Justin Whitehurst, Jordan Potts
Thunder Bay, NONT
2010: Craig Brown
Craig Brown, John Shuster, Greg Johnson, Derrick Casper
Madison, WI
2005: John Salo
John Salo
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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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