Van Ymeren3-1 at Travelers Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Craig
Van Ymeren

Third
Matt
Mapletoft

Second
Scott
Brandon

Lead
Shane
Konings

Craig Van Ymeren (St. Thomas, ON) finished 3-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Van Ymeren defeated Mike Aprile (Listowel, ON) 9-2, then won 8-2 against Nick Rizzo (Ilderton, ON). Van Ymeren went on to lose 5-3 against Mark Bice (Hamilton, ON). Van Ymeren responded with a 6-3 win over Rizzo in their final qualifying round match.

. For week 21 of the event schedule, Van Ymeren did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 67th to 69th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 25.510 total points. Van Ymeren ranks 47th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 19.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	23	17	0	0.575	8-4	4-5	3-5	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	290	217	183	7.48	6.31	1.17	4.59	4.14	1.63	1.53	1.28

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	147	172	39	21	6-0	9-0	38-11	1.17	0.27	0.42	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	143	45	144	16	1-2	0-9	7-28	0.31	1.01	0.58	0.24

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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