Grattan Advances To 2022 New Brunswick Tankard Final

SKIP
James
Grattan

Third
Darren
Moulding

Second
Paul
Dobson

Lead
Andy
McCann

James Grattan (Oromocto, NB) is set to play Grattan in the Final Grattan advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the New Brunswick Tankard, held February 9 - 13, 2022 in Miramichi, New Brunswick. To advance to the championship game, Grattan won 8-5 over Zack Eldridge (Fredericton, NB) in the semifinals of the 2022 New Brunswick Tankard in Miramichi, New Brunswick;

Grattan finished 6-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Grattan defeated Eldridge 8-7, then won 8-5 against Alex Robichaud (Fredericton, NB) and 9-5 against Jack Smeltzer (Fredericton, NB). Grattan went on to lose 9-8 against Eldridge. Grattan responded with a 8-3 win over Adam MacDonald (Oromocto, NB). Grattan won 9-1 against Smeltzer, then won 8-2 against Scott Jones (Moncton, NB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the New Brunswick Tankard Championship title, Grattan earned 10.238 world rankings points, moving up 14 spots the World Ranking Standings into 67th place overall with 56.959 total points. Grattan ranks 79th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 39.800 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	18	11	0	0.621	4-1	1-6	0-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	243	183	135	7.53	5.56	1.98	4.65	4.03	1.62	1.38	1.32

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	111	135	24	11	1-0	13-1	26-2	1.22	0.22	0.40	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	132	48	111	21	1-0	2-5	8-23	0.36	0.84	0.64	0.25

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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