CHAMPION: Ferland Wins 2013 Vic Open

SKIP
Martin
Ferland

Third
Francois
Roberge

Second
Shawn
Fowler

Lead
Maxime
Elmaleh

Martin Ferland (Quebec, PQ) won 5-3 over Philippe Lemay (Trois-Rivieres, PQ) in the Final of the Vic Open, held December 13 - 15, 2013 at the Victoria Curling Club in Quebec, Canada. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Ferland won 4-3 over Michael Fournier (Montreal, PQ) to advance to the championship game. of the 2013 Vic Open in Quebec, Quebec, Canada;

Ferland finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ferland defeated Nicolas Marceau (Etchemin, PQ) 7-5, then won 6-4 against Denis Robichaud (Sorel-Tracy, PQ) and 5-3 against Fournier. Ferland won 8-2 against Steeve Gagnon (Montreal, PQ) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Vic Open Championship title, Ferland earned 5.350 world rankings points along with the $2,400CDN first prize cheque, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 39th place overall with 44.360 total points. Ferland ranks 59th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.820 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	18	5	0	0.783	10-3	7-1	3-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	179	139	93	7.77	5.20	2.57	4.58	3.91	1.70	1.33	1.51

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	93	108	19	17	2-1	11-1	18-0	1.16	0.20	0.41	0.15

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	86	31	74	10	0-1	3-2	5-11	0.36	0.86	0.75	0.23

2020: Vincent Roberge
Vincent Roberge, Jesse Mullen, Jean-Michel Arsenault, Julien Tremblay
Levis, QC
2019: Martin Crete
Martin Crete, Philippe Lemay, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
St-Romuald, QC
2018: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau, QC
2013: Martin Ferland
Martin Ferland, Francois Roberge, Shawn Fowler, Maxime Elmaleh
Quebec, QC
2012: Simon Dupuis
Simon Dupuis, Louis Biron, Frederic Boulanger, Maurice Cayouette
Buckingham, QC

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