Warkentin Reaches Northern Ontario Tankard Semifinals

SKIP
Zach
Warkentin

Third
Tyler
Stewart

Second
Travis
Potter

Lead
Jamie
Childs

Zach Warkentin (Thunder Bay, ON) run at the Northern Ontario Tankard came to an end in the semifinals with a 9-2 loss to Bonot. of the Northern Ontario Tankard in Little Current, Ontario; Zach Warkentin (Thunder Bay, ON) reaches the Northern Ontario Tankard semifinals where they will meet Trevor Bonot (Thunder Bay, ON) for a spot into the championship game.

Warkentin finished 7-2 in the 11-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Warkentin lost 9-7 to Matthew Hunt (Sault Ste Marie, ON), then responded with a 10-5 win over Malcolm O'Bright (North Bay, ON). Warkentin went on to lose 7-5 against Jordan Chandler (Little Current, ON). Warkentin responded with a 7-1 win over Hunt. Warkentin won 6-4 against Chris Silver (Thunder Bay, ON), then won 10-4 against Ian Deschene (Sudbury, ON) and 8-3 against Mike Assad (Copper Cliff, ON). Warkentin won 10-7 against Chandler, then won 10-5 against Brian Adams Jr. (Thunder Bay, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Warkentin earned 2.250 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Northern Ontario Tankard, moving up 37 spots the World Ranking Standings into 229th place overall with 6.188 total points. Warkentin ranks 222nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.688 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	17	16	0	0.515	5-3	1-6	2-3	0-1	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	257	185	165	7.20	6.42	0.78	4.28	4.20	1.68	1.53	1.52

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	135	118	67	21	3-1	8-2	20-13	0.87	0.50	0.27	0.34

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	122	67	98	18	0-2	6-5	13-20	0.55	0.80	0.56	0.34

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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