Rajala2-2 at Travelers Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Howard
Rajala

Third
J.P.
Lachance

Second
Chris
Fulton

Lead
Paul
Madden

Howard Rajala (Ottawa, ON) finished 2-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Rajala defeated Bryan Cochrane (Ottawa, ON) 5-4, then won 6-5 against Ian MacAulay (Ottawa, ON). Rajala went on to lose 10-9 against Mark Homan (Ottawa, ON). Rajala lost 6-4 to Cochrane in their final qualifying round match.

. For week 21 of the event schedule, Rajala did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 79th to 81st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 20.105 total points. Rajala ranks 52nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 16.925 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	8	4	0	0.667	4-1	4-3	3-1	1-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	95	71	61	7.47	6.42	1.05	4.84	4.11	1.54	1.56	1.05

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	45	51	8	5	0-0	3-0	12-1	1.13	0.18	0.38	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	50	20	53	5	0-0	1-3	5-15	0.40	1.06	0.44	0.26

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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