CHAMPION: Currie Wins 2014 Travelers Northern Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Jeff
Currie

Third
Mike
McCarville

Second
Colin
Koivula

Lead
Jamie
Childs

Jeff Currie (Thunder Bay, NONT) won 9-4 over Brian Adams Jr. (Thunder Bay, NONT) in the Final of the Travelers Northern Ontario Tankard, held February 5 - 9, 2014 in Timmins, Ontario. To advance to the championship game, Currie won 5-4 over Mike Jakubo (Sudbury, NONT) in the semifinals of the 2014 Travelers Northern Ontario Tankard in Timmins, Ontario;

Currie finished 5-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Currie defeated Trevor Bonot (Thunder Bay, ON) 9-3, then went on to lose 8-5 against Adams Jr.. Currie responded with a 8-5 win over Robbie Gordon (Sudbury, ON). Currie went on to lose 8-7 against Dylan Johnston (Thunder Bay, ON). Currie responded with a 6-4 win over Bryan Burgess (Thunder Bay, ON). Currie won 7-5 against Jakubo, then won 6-4 against Dan Lemieux (Sault Ste Marie, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Travelers Northern Ontario Tankard Championship title, Currie earned 4.000 world rankings points, moving up 12 spots the World Ranking Standings into 82nd place overall with 20.415 total points. Currie ranks 55th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 17.565 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	31	19	0	0.620	9-6	7-8	1-3	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	392	298	244	7.60	6.22	1.38	4.44	4.01	1.71	1.55	1.56

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	190	228	47	30	6-1	14-1	52-9	1.20	0.25	0.45	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	202	70	197	31	1-3	7-10	7-43	0.35	0.98	0.55	0.23

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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