Varnes5-2 at Ontario Scotties East Regional

SKIP
Rhonda
Varnes

Third
Kalie
McKenna

Second
Celeste
Bellefeuille

Lead
Breanne
Merklinger

Rhonda Varnes (Ottawa, ON) finished 5-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Varnes defeated Julie O'Neill (Lindsay, ON) 5-4, then went on to lose 7-4 against Katie Morrissey (Ottawa, ON). Varnes responded with a 9-8 win over Julie Hastings (Thornhill, ON). Varnes won 5-4 against Chrissy Cadorin (Thornhill, ON), then won 7-4 against Susan McKnight (Uxbridge, ON) and 6-3 against Lauren Mann (Peterborough, ON). Varnes went on to lose 9-2 against Cathy Auld (Toronto, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

. For week 18 of the event schedule, Varnes did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 189th place on the World Ranking Standings with 0.875 total points. Varnes ranks 155th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	10	9	0	0.526	2-2	4-2	3-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	159	90	102	5.66	6.42	-0.75	3.96	4.21	1.43	1.52	1.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	74	68	32	9	0-2	3-1	17-4	0.92	0.43	0.31	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	85	22	70	20	0-1	0-2	4-15	0.26	0.82	0.62	0.21

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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