Walker2-2 at Ontario Tankard Challenge Round

SKIP
Jake
Walker

Third
Brett
Dekoning

Second
Brad
Kidd

Lead
Scott
Brandon

Jake Walker (Peterborough, ON) finished 2-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Walker lost 9-4 to Eric Bradey (St. Catharines, ON), then responded with a 8-6 win over Brent Ross (Harriston, ON). Walker won 8-4 against Mark Kean (Stoney Creek, ON). Walker went on to lose 8-7 against Rob Retchless (Toronto, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Walker earned 1.444 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Walker move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 1.028 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 69th overall with 75.336 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Walker ranks 76th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 44.698 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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