CHAMPION: MacDonald Wins 2014 Co-Operative Funeralcare Scottish Championhip

SKIP
Ewan
MacDonald

Third
Duncan
Fernie

Second
Dave
Reid

Lead
Euan
Byers

Ewan MacDonald (Perth, SCO) won 9-4 over David Edwards (Aberdeen, SCO) in the Final of the Co-Operative Funeralcare Scottish Championhip, held February 8 - 16, 2014 in Perth, Scotland.

MacDonald finished 9-0 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, MacDonald defeated John Hamilton (Stranraer, SCO) 8-2, then won 7-1 against Ally Fraser (Perth, SCO) and 7-4 against David Smith (Perth, SCO). MacDonald won 10-4 against Moray Combe (Forfar, SCO), then won 7-5 against Logan Gray (Stirling, SCO) and 6-2 against Edwards. MacDonald won 11-4 against Lee McCleary (Stirling, SCO), then won 7-3 against Kyle Smith (Perth, SCO) and 10-3 against Grant Hardie (Stranraer, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Co-Operative Funeralcare Scottish Championhip Championship title, MacDonald earned 6.800 world rankings points, moving up 20 spots the World Ranking Standings into 71st place overall with 25.084 total points. MacDonald ranks 92nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.930 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	17	11	0	0.607	14-5	3-6	1-2	0-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	233	182	150	7.81	6.44	1.37	4.59	3.99	1.70	1.61	1.42

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	117	138	29	18	3-1	9-0	31-6	1.18	0.25	0.43	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	116	44	121	15	0-2	4-7	8-27	0.38	1.04	0.51	0.24

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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