CHAMPION: Homan Wins 2014 Scotties Tournament of Hearts

SKIP
Rachel
Homan

Third
Emma
Miskew

Second
Alison
Kreviazuk

Lead
Lisa
Weagle

Rachel Homan (Ottawa, CAN) won 8-6 over Val Sweeting (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, held February 1 - 9, 2014 in Montreal, Quebec.

Homan finished 11-0 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Homan defeated Chelsea Carey (Winnipeg, MB) 8-3, then won 9-3 against Alli Flaxey (Listowel, ON) and 9-6 against Allison Ross (Montreal, QC). Homan won 9-3 against Sarah Koltun (Whitehorse, Y/NWT), then won 10-5 against Sweeting and 10-4 against Heather Smith (Halifax, NS). Homan won 7-3 against Kesa Van Osch (Victoria, BC), then won 9-4 against Kim Dolan (Charlottetown, PEI) and 7-6 against Stefanie Lawton (Saskatoon, SK). Homan won 9-4 against Heather Strong (St. John's, NL), then won 7-3 against Andrea Kelly (Oromocto, NB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Championship title, Homan earned 45.000 world rankings points, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 2nd place overall with 376.820 total points. Homan ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 151.420 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	54	20	0	0.730	29-6	23-13	8-5	2-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	583	458	328	7.86	5.63	2.23	4.58	3.89	1.72	1.44	1.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	285	351	53	47	7-2	29-2	69-6	1.23	0.19	0.44	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	298	107	275	42	0-2	14-10	14-58	0.36	0.92	0.63	0.22

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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