Varnes1-2 at 2013 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau

SKIP
Rhonda
Varnes

Third
Kalie
McKenna

Second
Celeste
Bellefeuille

Lead
Breanne
Merklinger

Rhonda Varnes (Ottawa, ON) finished 1-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Varnes lost 9-4 to Cissi Ostlund (Karlstad, SWE), droppimg another game, 7-3 to Allison Ross (Montreal, QC) where Varnes responded with a 6-3 win over Roxane Perron (Trois-Rivieres, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

. For week 11 of the event schedule, Varnes did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 193rd to 195th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 0.500 total points. Varnes ranks 335th 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
2014	10	9	0	0.526	2-2	4-2	3-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	159	90	102	5.66	6.42	-0.75	3.96	4.21	1.43	1.52	1.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	74	68	32	9	0-2	3-1	17-4	0.92	0.43	0.31	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	85	22	70	20	0-1	0-2	4-15	0.26	0.82	0.62	0.21

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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