CHAMPION: Murphy Wins 2012 NS Molson Tankard

SKIP
Jamie
Murphy

Third
Jordan
Pinder

Second
Mike
Bardsley

Lead
Don
McDermaid

Jamie Murphy (Halifax, NS) won 7-5 over Mark Dacey (Halifax, NS) in the Final of the NS Molson Tankard, held February 8 - 12, 2012 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.

Murphy finished 5-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Murphy lost 9-5 to Kent Smith (Halifax, NS), then responded with a 9-4 win over Dacey. Murphy won 6-5 against Ian Juurlink (Halifax, NS), then won 9-5 against Chad Stevens (Chester, NS) and 7-2 against Brent MacDougall (Halifax, NS). Murphy went on to lose 6-5 against Ian Fitzner-Leblanc (Halifax, NS). Murphy responded with a 7-3 win over Peter Burgess (Truro, NS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the NS Molson Tankard Championship title, Murphy earned 4.000 world rankings points, moving up 46 spots the World Ranking Standings into 147th place overall with 9.210 total points. Murphy ranks 145th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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