CHAMPION: Menard Wins 2014 Quebec Tankard

SKIP
Jean-Michel
Menard

Third
Martin
Crete

Second
Eric
Sylvain

Lead
Philippe
Menard

Jean-Michel Menard (Levis, PQ) won 7-4 over Philippe Lemay (Trois-Rivieres, PQ) in the Final of the Quebec Tankard, held January 11 - 19, 2014 in Val-dOr, Quebec.

Menard finished 7-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Menard defeated Francois Gagne (Montreal, PQ) 9-5, then won 9-8 against Denis Robichaud (Aurele, PQ) and 11-3 against Alexandre Ferland (Kenogami, PQ). Menard went on to lose 7-6 against Robert Desjardins (Baie d'Urfe, PQ). Menard responded with a 8-3 win over Serge Reid (Kenogami, PQ). Menard won 8-3 against Steeve Gagnon (Rosemere, PQ), then won 8-6 against Michael Fournier (Riverbend, PQ) and 8-5 against Martin Ferland (Trois-Rivieres, PQ). Menard went on to lose 6-1 against Lemay in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Quebec Tankard Championship title, Menard earned 6.160 world rankings points, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 18th place overall with 124.855 total points. Menard ranks 22nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 49.240 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	39	24	0	0.619	18-11	17-11	8-5	2-0	1-4

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	522	385	334	7.38	6.40	0.98	4.27	4.35	1.73	1.47	1.38

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	266	319	65	36	14-0	14-1	69-12	1.20	0.24	0.42	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	256	66	269	36	0-1	3-9	16-72	0.26	1.05	0.53	0.17

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