CHAMPION: Menard Wins 2011 Challenge Casino Lac Leamy

Gatineau/Levis, Quebec

SKIP
Jean-Michel
Menard

Third
Martin
Crete

Second
Eric
Sylvain

Lead
Philippe
Menard

Games:	5
Record:	5W - 0L
PF/G:	11.33
PA/G:	4.67
Hammer Efficiency:	0.77
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.21

Jean-Michel Menard (Gatineau/Levis, PQ) won 7-6 over Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste. Marie, ON) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Menard won 5-3 over Mark Kean (Toronto, ON) in the semifinals of the 2011 Challenge Casino Lac Leamy in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada; and won 7-3 over Pierre Charette (Saguenay, PQ) in the quarterfinals. of the 2011 Challenge Casino Lac Leamy in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada;

Menard finished 3-0 in the 24 team Challenge Casino Lac Leamy qualifying round, held October 20 - 23, 2011 at the Buckingham Curling Club in Buckingham, Canada. In their opening game, Menard defeated Jamie Murphy (Halifax, NS) 7-1, then won 8-4 against Rob Rumfeldt (Guelph, ON) and 7-3 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Challenge Casino Lac Leamy Championship title, Menard earned 22.400 world rankings points along with the $9,000CDN first prize chequeFor winning the Challenge Casino Lac Leamy Championship title, Menard earned 0.000 world rankings points along with the $9,000CDN first prize chequeFor winning the Challenge Casino Lac Leamy Championship title, Menard earned 0.000 world rankings points along with the $9,000CDN first prize cheque. Menard move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 22.4 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 13th overall with 110.436 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Menard ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 32.400 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2012	5	0	0	1.000	3-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2012	30	34	14	11.33	4.67	6.67	4.67	3.33	2.43	1.40	2.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2012	16	30	2	3	4-0	1-0	5-0	1.88	0.13	0.77	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2012	14	4	12	3	0-0	0-0	1-4	0.29	0.86	0.50	0.21

2009: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Jean Gagnon
Gatineau, QC
2010: Serge Reid
Serge Reid, Francois Gionest, Simon Collin, Steeve Villeneuve
Saguenay, QC
2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau/Levis, QC
2012: Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Andrew Gibson
Halifax, NS
2013: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Craig Savill, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2017: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Xiao Ming Xu, Dongxu Jiang, Jia Liang Zang
Harbin, CHN
2018: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Jonathan Beuk, Wesley Forget, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON

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