Frans4-1 at Dairy Farmers of Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Joe
Frans

Third
Mike
Anderson

Second
Scott
Foster

Lead
Trevor
Wall

Joe Frans (Oakville, ON) finished 4-1 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Frans defeated Daryl Shane (Listowel, ON) 11-3, then went on to lose 8-0 against Richard Krell (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON). Frans responded with a 8-7 win over Wayne Tuck Jr. (Brantford, ON). Frans won 7-1 against Spencer Richmond (Ottawa, ON), then won 7-6 against Cory Heggestad (Stroud, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Dairy Farmers of Ontario Tankard - Challenge Round, Frans take home 12.883 world rankings points, moving up 16 spots the World Ranking Standings into 108th place overall with 54.867 total points. Frans ranks 118th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 25.308 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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