Venance Runner-Up at 2025 BC Men's Curling Championships, Presented by Best Western

Penticton, British Columbia

SKIP
Glenn
Venance

Third
Sebastien
Robillard

Second
Erik
Colwell

Lead
Matt
Tolley

Games:	7
Record:	5W - 2L
PF/G:	6.23
PA/G:	4.49
Hammer Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Defense:	0.06
Force Efficiency:	0.63
Steal Efficiency:	0.22

Glenn Venance (Penticton, BC) lost 10-8 to Cameron de Jong (Victoria, BC) in the Final of the BC Men's Curling Championships, Presented by Best Western, held January 20 - 25, 2025 at the George Preston Recreation Centre in Langley Twp, Canada.

Venance finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Venance defeated Jason Montgomery (Victoria, BC) 6-1, then won 6-3 against Brent Pierce (New Westminister, BC) to advance to a A-Qualifier game where they lost 5-4 against Jared Kolomaya (Richmond, BC). Venance responded with a 6-4 win over Jeff Richard (Kelowna, BC) to advance to the B-Qualifier where they 7-3 against Connor Deane (New Westminster, BC) to advance to the playoff round. in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the BC Men's Curling Championships, Presented by Best Western, Venance take home 8.250 world rankings points. Venance move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 6 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 64th overall with 53.758 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Venance ranks 67th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 38.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	25	25	0	0.500	1-5	1-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	346	257	238	7.43	6.88	0.55	4.68	4.02	1.59	1.71	1.30

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	179	172	63	26	1-0	11-5	37-9	0.96	0.35	0.32	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	167	85	175	19	2-8	7-12	10-26	0.51	1.05	0.52	0.32

2025: Cameron de Jong
Cameron de Jong, Alex Horvath, Corey Chester, Brayden Carpenter
Victoria, BC
2024: Catlin Schneider
Catlin Schneider, Jason Ginter, Sterling Middleton, Alex Horvath
Victoria, BC
2023: Jacques Gauthier
Jacques Gauthier, Sterling Middleton, Jason Ginter, Alex Horvath , Bryan Miki
Victoria, BC
2022: Jeff Richard
Jeff Richard, Brent Pierce, Jared Kolomaya, Nicholas Meister
Kelowna, BC
2020: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Steve Laycock, Andrew Nerpin, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC
2019: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Steve Laycock, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky, Brad Wood
Vernon, BC
2018: Sean Geall
Sean Geall, Jeff Richard, Andrew Nerpin, David Harper
Kelowna, BC
2017: John Morris
Jim Cotter, John Morris, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC
2016: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Ryan Kuhn, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC
2015: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Ryan Kuhn, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon/Kelowna, BC
2014: John Morris
Jim Cotter, John Morris, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Kelowna, BC
2013: Andrew Bilesky
Andrew Bilesky, Steve Kopf, Derek Errington, Aaron Watson
New Westminster, BC
2012: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Kevin Folk, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Kelowna, BC

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