CHAMPION: Bitz Wins 2014 Goldline Sask Players' Championship

SKIP
Scott
Bitz

Third
Jeff
Sharp

Second
Aryn
Schmidt

Lead
Dean
Hicke

Scott Bitz (Regina, SK) won 7-5 over Jeff Hartung (Langenburg, SK) in the Final of the Goldline Sask Players' Championship, held January 3 - 5, 2014 in Wadena, Saskatchewan. To advance to the championship game, Bitz won 5-4 over Kevin Marsh (Saskatoon, SK) in the semifinals of the 2014 Goldline Sask Players' Championship in Wadena, Saskatchewan; and won 5-0 over Darren Camm (Regina, SK) in the quarterfinals. of the 2014 Goldline Sask Players' Championship in Wadena, Saskatchewan;

Bitz finished 2-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bitz lost 7-2 to Mike Armstrong (Saskatoon, SK), droppimg another game, 7-2 to Justin Mihalicz (Regina, SK) where Bitz responded with a 4-2 win over William Coutts (Saskatoon, SK). Bitz won 8-2 against Darrell McKee (Saskatoon, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Goldline Sask Players' Championship Championship title, Bitz earned 5.250 world rankings points along with the $3,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 47th place overall with 37.740 total points. Bitz ranks 36th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 24.815 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	26	14	0	0.650	8-3	7-6	7-2	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	294	197	171	6.70	5.82	0.88	4.35	3.91	1.54	1.49	1.73

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	142	150	41	20	5-1	5-1	30-7	1.06	0.29	0.33	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	152	47	130	31	0-0	2-4	8-36	0.31	0.86	0.53	0.23

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

CURLING HISTORY: A Prize Letter

In the run up to Christmas Day, 1893, the Aberdeen Peoples's Journal offered a prize of one guinea for the best letter about curling! That's the invitation... (read more)
EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)