CHAMPION: Currie Wins 2013 Bernick's Miller Lite Open

SKIP
Jeff
Currie

Third
Mike
McCarville

Second
Colin
Koivula

Lead
Jamie
Childs

Jeff Currie (Thunder Bay, ON) won 6-1 over Minnesota's John Shuster in the Final of the Bernick's Miller Lite Open, held October 24 - 27, 2013 in Bemidji, Minnesota. To advance to the championship game, Currie won 5-3 over Minnesota's Pete Fenson in the semifinals of the 2013 Bernick's Miller Lite Open in Bemidji, Minnesota; and won 9-7 over Richard Muntain (Pinawa, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2013 Bernick's Miller Lite Open in Bemidji, Minnesota;

Currie finished 3-1 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Currie defeated Minnesota's Cassie Potter 7-2, then won 6-3 against Dale Gibbs (St Paul, MN). Currie went on to lose 7-2 against Minnesota's Pete Fenson. Currie responded with a 8-1 win over Andy Borland (Hibbing, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Bernick's Miller Lite Open Championship title, Currie earned 3.500 world rankings points along with the $3,132CDN first prize cheque, moving up 39 spots the World Ranking Standings into 114th place overall with 8.450 total points. Currie ranks 73rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 5.600 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	31	19	0	0.620	9-6	7-8	1-3	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	392	298	244	7.60	6.22	1.38	4.44	4.01	1.71	1.55	1.56

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	190	228	47	30	6-1	14-1	52-9	1.20	0.25	0.45	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	202	70	197	31	1-3	7-10	7-43	0.35	0.98	0.55	0.23

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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