Morris Runner-Up at 2014 Tim Hortons Brier

Fourth
Jim
Cotter

SKIP
John
Morris

Second
Tyrel
Griffith

Lead
Rick
Sawatsky

John Morris (Vernon, BC) lost 10-5 to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the Tim Hortons Brier, held March 1 - 9, 2014 in Kamloops, British Columbia.

Morris finished 9-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morris defeated Koe 7-6, then won 8-2 against Jeff Currie (Thunder Bay, NONT). Morris went on to lose 7-4 against Jean-Michel Menard (St-Romauld, PQ). Morris responded with a 8-6 win over Jamie Murphy (Lower Sackville, NS). Morris won 10-4 against Eddie MacKenzie (Charlottetown, PEI), then won 7-2 against Jamie Koe (Yellowknife, Y/NWT) and 9-3 against James Grattan (Oromocto, NB). Morris won 5-3 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL), then won 8-3 against Greg Balsdon (Hamilton, ON). Morris went on to lose 7-6 against Jeff Stoughton (Winnipeg, MB). Morris responded with a 6-3 win over Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Tim Hortons Brier, Morris take home 35.000 world rankings points, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 9th place overall with 264.893 total points. Morris ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 148.780 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	41	20	0	0.672	27-10	11-8	9-4	1-0	0-4

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	495	382	293	7.72	5.92	1.80	4.51	3.66	1.71	1.62	1.84

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	252	296	37	57	7-1	19-1	68-5	1.17	0.15	0.48	0.11

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	243	86	256	34	3-5	5-22	11-43	0.35	1.05	0.55	0.23

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