Frans1-3 at 2013 Capital One Road to the Roar

SKIP
Joe
Frans

Third
Ryan
Werenich

Second
Jeff
Gorda

Lead
Shawn
Kaufman

Joe Frans (Bradford, ON) finished 1-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Frans lost 9-3 to Jake Higgs (Glencoe, ON), then responded with a 9-4 win over Bryan Cochrane (Ottawa, ON). Frans went on to lose 8-4 against Greg Balsdon (Toronto, ON). Frans lost 8-7 to Higgs in their final qualifying round match.

Frans earned 3.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 19th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 102.540 total points. Frans ranks 25th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 28.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	27	24	0	0.529	12-7	5-5	7-7	0-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	362	269	243	7.43	6.71	0.72	4.36	4.28	1.70	1.57	1.35

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	182	202	62	23	5-0	17-4	39-8	1.11	0.34	0.38	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	180	67	181	26	1-4	4-12	10-36	0.37	1.01	0.52	0.25

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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