CHAMPION: Grandy/Janssen Wins 2021 GOLDLINE Valleyfield Mixed Doubles

Clancy Grandy/Patrick Janssen (Pickering, ON) won 9-3 over Ashley Waye/Rob Retchless (Toronto, ON) in the Final of the GOLDLINE Valleyfield Mixed Doubles, held October 15 - 17, 2021 at the Valleyfield Curling Club in , Quebec. To advance to the championship game, Grandy/Janssen won 7-3 over Emilie Desjardins/Robert Desjardins (Saguenay, QC) in the semifinals of the 2021 GOLDLINE Valleyfield Mixed Doubles in , Quebec; and won 6-5 over Audrey Laplante/Jasmin Gibeau (Thurso, QC) in the quarterfinals. of the 2021 GOLDLINE Valleyfield Mixed Doubles in , Quebec;

Grandy/Janssen finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Grandy/Janssen defeated Marie-Claude Comeau/Simon Hebert (Valleyfield, QC) 6-4, then won 8-2 against Cynthia Furlotte/David Daoust (Sudbury, NONT) and 7-5 against Lauren Horton/Pierre-Luc Morissette (QuÃ©bec, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the GOLDLINE Valleyfield Mixed Doubles Championship title, Grandy/Janssen earned 30.488 world rankings points along with the $840CDN first prize cheque. For week 12 of the event schedule, Grandy/Janssen did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 778th place on the World Ranking Standings with 7.848 total points. Grandy/Janssen ranks 336th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	16	5	0	0.762	1-0	1-1	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	141	146	88	10.35	6.24	4.11	5.74	4.26	1.80	1.47	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	66	98	23	0	5-0	13-1	8-3	1.48	0.35	0.39	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	75	48	65	0	1-0	4-5	3-13	0.64	0.87	0.57	0.44

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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