CHAMPION: Grattan Wins 2014 New Brunswick Tankard

SKIP
James
Grattan

Third
Jason
Roach

Second
Darren
Roach

Lead
Josh
Barry

James Grattan (Oromocto, NB) won 8-7 over New Brunswick's Marc LeCocq in the Final Grattan advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the New Brunswick Tankard, held February 5 - 9, 2014 in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Grattan finished 6-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Grattan defeated New Brunswick's Terry Odishaw 7-6, then won 11-3 against New Brunswick's Brody Hanson and 8-4 against New Brunswick's Shane Longley. Grattan won 7-4 against New Brunswick's Shaun Mott. Grattan went on to lose 6-4 against New Brunswick's Wayne Tallon. Grattan responded with a 9-5 win over New Brunswick's Paul Dobson. Grattan won 6-5 against New Brunswick's Marc LeCocq in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the New Brunswick Tankard Championship title, Grattan earned 4.000 world rankings points, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 43rd place overall with 43.635 total points. Grattan ranks 35th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 26.260 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	33	12	0	0.733	20-6	9-6	7-4	1-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	363	291	224	8.02	6.17	1.85	4.71	4.24	1.70	1.45	1.05

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	175	227	46	14	5-1	11-1	59-8	1.30	0.26	0.47	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	188	64	178	24	2-3	4-7	8-31	0.34	0.95	0.66	0.22

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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