Lappalainen Reaches 2012 Courtesy Freight Northern Ontario Superspiel Quarters

SKIP
Art
Lappalainen

Third
Ron
Rosengren

Second
Tim
Warkentin

Lead
Larry
Rathjie

Art Lappalainen (Thunder Bay, NONT) qualified for the 2012 Courtesy Freight Northern Ontario Superspiel playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-3 against Al Hackner (Thunder Bay, NONT). of the 2012 Courtesy Freight Northern Ontario Superspiel in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada;

Lappalainen finished 5-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Lappalainen defeated Joe Scharf (Thunder Bay, ON) 8-7, then won 6-5 against Trevor Bonot (Thunder Bay, ON) and 6-4 against Steen Sigurdson (Winnipeg, ). Lappalainen won 4-3 against Minnesota's Eric Fenson, then won 5-3 against Mike Assad (Thunder Bay, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Lappalainen earned 1.125 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Courtesy Freight Northern Ontario Superspiel, moving up 82 spots the World Ranking Standings into 277th place overall with 1.231 total points. Lappalainen ranks 181st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2012: Al Hackner
Al Hackner, Kory Carr, Kristofer Leupen, Gary Champagne
Thunder Bay, NONT
2011: Colin Koivula
Colin Koivula, Eric Theriault, Justin Whitehurst, Jordan Potts
Thunder Bay, NONT
2010: Craig Brown
Craig Brown, John Shuster, Greg Johnson, Derrick Casper
Madison, WI
2005: John Salo
John Salo
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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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