CHAMPION: Gauthier Wins 2020 New Holland Canadian Junior Mens Championship

SKIP
Jacques
Gauthier

Third
Jordan
Peters

Second
Brayden
Payette

Lead
Zack
Bilawka

Jacques Gauthier (Winnipeg, MB) won 8-6 over Daniel Bruce (St. John's, NL) in the Final Gauthier advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the New Holland Canadian Junior Mens Championship, held January 18 - 26, 2020 in Langley, British Columbia.

Gauthier finished 9-1 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gauthier defeated Greg Cheal (Lennoxville, QC) 10-9, then won 9-5 against Liam Marin (Saint John, NB). Gauthier went on to lose 11-3 against Graeme Weagle (Chester, NS). Gauthier responded with a 9-4 win over Brett Walter (Winnipeg, MB). Gauthier won 7-5 against Jacob Horgan (Sudbury, NONT), then won 8-5 against Tyler Smith (Montague, PEI) and 10-6 against Bruce. Gauthier won 5-4 against Hayato Sato (New Westminster, BC), then won 6-2 against Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB) and 6-5 against Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the New Holland Canadian Junior Mens Championship Championship title, Gauthier earned 22.902 world rankings points. For week 27 of the event schedule, Gauthier did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Gauthier ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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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