Kean2-3 at Insitu Players Open

SKIP
Mark
Kean

Third
Brady
Lumley

Second
Matthew
Garner

Lead
Spencer
Dunlop

Mark Kean (Woodstock, ON) finished 2-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kean defeated Cameron Bryce (Border, SCO) 7-3, then went on to lose 5-3 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). Kean lost 5-1 to John Epping (Toronto, ON) where Kean responded with a 8-6 win over Ross Whyte (Stirling, SCO). Kean went on to lose 6-5 against ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

Kean earned 5.250 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 55th place overall with 67.969 total points. Kean ranks 50th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	27	21	0	0.563	2-2	3-3	0-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	350	275	223	7.86	6.37	1.49	4.46	4.14	1.76	1.54	1.40

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	175	184	58	27	5-0	10-3	43-9	1.05	0.33	0.39	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	175	91	165	22	2-4	10-7	14-35	0.52	0.94	0.55	0.29

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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