CHAMPION: Roy Wins 2017 Experience Curling Classic

Fourth
Robert
Desjardins

SKIP
Jean-Sebastien
Roy

Second
Pierre-Luc
Morissette

Lead
Thierry
Fournier

Jean-Sebastien Roy (Chicoutimi, QC) won 7-2 over Steeve Gagnon (Montreal, QC) in the Final of the Experience Curling Classic, held November 8 - 12, 2017 at the Baie d'Urfé Curling Club in Baie d'Urfé, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Roy won 8-4 over Michael Fournier (Montreal, QC) in the semifinals of the 2017 Experience Curling Classic in Baie d'Urfé, Quebec, Canada; and won 7-1 over Benoit Vezeau (Montreal, QC) in the quarterfinals. of the 2017 Experience Curling Classic in Baie d'Urfé, Quebec, Canada;

Roy finished 2-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Roy lost 7-2 to Alek Bedard (Montreal, QC), then responded with a 10-3 win over Marc Don (Montreal, QC). Roy won 7-1 against Scott Hill (Ormstown, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Experience Curling Classic Championship title, Roy earned 12.257 world rankings points along with the $1,600CDN first prize cheque, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 54th place overall with 106.598 total points. Roy ranks 36th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 59.468 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

2018: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Jim Stewart, Dan deWaard, Daniel Caron
Gatineau, QC
2017: Jean-Sebastien Roy
Robert Desjardins, Jean-Sebastien Roy, Pierre-Luc Morissette, Thierry Fournier
Chicoutimi, QC
2016: Jean-Sebastien Roy
Jean-Sebastien Roy, Jasmin Gibeau, Dan deWaard, Vincent Bourget
Thurso, QC

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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