Martel4-5 at 2020 WFG Quebec Tankard

Fourth
Simon
Hebert

SKIP
Yannick
Martel

Second
Jean-Francois
Charest

Lead
Marco
Fortier

Yannick Martel (Saguenay, QC) finished 4-5 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Martel lost 10-2 to Michael Fournier (Montreal, QC), then responded with a 10-4 win over Alex Berube (Mont-Bruno, QC). Martel won 8-7 against Martin Ferland (Trois-Rivieres, QC). Martel went on to lose 11-1 against Greg Balsdon (Montreal, QC). Martel responded with a 8-5 win over Steven Munroe (Levis, QC). Martel won 10-7 against Scott Hill (Ormstown, QC). Martel went on to lose 7-6 against Alek Bedard (Lacolle, QC). Martel lost 8-4 to Vincent Roberge (Levis, QC). Martel lost 9-2 to Mark Homan (Gatineau, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

Martel earned 3.737 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Martel move up 8 spots after posting a net gain of 2.441 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 147th overall with 23.750 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Martel ranks 141st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.454 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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