Martel Reaches Vic Open Assurances Jean Gamache Semifinals

SKIP
Yannick
Martel

Third
Jean-Francois
Charest

Second
Carl
Levesque

Lead
Stephane
Palin

Yannick Martel (Kenogami, QC) run at the Vic Open Assurances Jean Gamache came to an end in the semifinals with a 5-4 loss to Martin Crete (St-Romuald, QC). of the Vic Open Assurances Jean Gamache in Quebec, Quebec, Canada;

Martel finished 3-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Martel defeated Jeffrey Stewart (Montreal, QC) 7-3, then won 9-3 against Pascal Chouinard (Quebec, QC) and 8-7 against Martin Ferland (Trois-Rivieres, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

Martel earned 9.573 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Vic Open Assurances Jean Gamache, moving up 39 spots the World Ranking Standings into 152nd place overall with 24.700 total points. Martel ranks 146th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 21.912 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

2020: Vincent Roberge
Vincent Roberge, Jesse Mullen, Jean-Michel Arsenault, Julien Tremblay
Levis, QC
2019: Martin Crete
Martin Crete, Philippe Lemay, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
St-Romuald, QC
2018: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau, QC
2013: Martin Ferland
Martin Ferland, Francois Roberge, Shawn Fowler, Maxime Elmaleh
Quebec, QC
2012: Simon Dupuis
Simon Dupuis, Louis Biron, Frederic Boulanger, Maurice Cayouette
Buckingham, 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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