CHAMPION: Freeman Wins Brandon Berth Bonspiel

SKIP
Jace
Freeman

Third
Nick
Senff

Second
Ryan
Ostrowsky

Lead
Luke
Robins

Jace Freeman (Virden, MB) won 8-1 over Travis Gregory (Hamiota, MB) in the Final of the Brandon Berth Bonspiel, held January 5 - 7 in Brandon, Manitoba. To advance to the championship game, Freeman won 7-5 over Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the Brandon Berth Bonspiel in Brandon, Manitoba; and won 9-3 over Steve Irwin (Brandon, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the Brandon Berth Bonspiel in Brandon, Manitoba;

Freeman finished 3-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Freeman lost 6-5 to Cale Dunbar (Brandon, MB), then responded with a 6-3 win over Chris Bridges (Rivers, MB). Freeman went on to lose 6-4 against Gregory. Freeman responded with a 6-5 win over Andrew Kempthorne (Brandon, MB) to advance to the C-Qualifier where they 4-3 against Kelly Marnoch (Carberry, MB) to advance to the playoff round. in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Brandon Berth Bonspiel Championship title, Freeman earned 3.750 world rankings points along with the $2,500CDN first prize cheque, moving up 21 spots the World Ranking Standings into 132nd place overall with 16.399 total points. Freeman ranks 114th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 15.063 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	21	18	0	0.538	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	269	186	181	6.91	6.73	0.19	4.09	4.16	1.69	1.62	1.75

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	139	138	47	28	4-0	14-3	23-5	0.99	0.34	0.37	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	130	48	134	19	0-5	2-8	9-27	0.37	1.03	0.47	0.27

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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