Frans4-2 at Travelers Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Joe
Frans

Third
Ryan
Werenich

Second
Jeff
Gorda

Lead
Shawn
Kaufman

Joe Frans (Bradford, ON) finished 4-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Frans lost 10-9 to Rob Retchless (Toronto, ON), then responded with a 10-9 win over Nick Rizzo (Brantford, ON). Frans won 10-4 against Don Bowser (Ottawa, ON), then won 9-5 against Mike Anderson (Markham, ON) and 10-5 against Retchless. Frans went on to lose 6-4 against John Epping (Toronto, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

. For week 22 of the event schedule, Frans did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 21st place on the World Ranking Standings with 116.040 total points. Frans ranks 27th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 41.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	27	24	0	0.529	12-7	5-5	7-7	0-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	362	269	243	7.43	6.71	0.72	4.36	4.28	1.70	1.57	1.35

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	182	202	62	23	5-0	17-4	39-8	1.11	0.34	0.38	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	180	67	181	26	1-4	4-12	10-36	0.37	1.01	0.52	0.25

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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