CHAMPION: Epping Wins 2014 Village of Taunton Mills Gord Carroll Curling Classic

SKIP
John
Epping

Third
Travis
Fanset

Second
Patrick
Janssen

Lead
Tim
March

John Epping (Toronto, ON) won 7-1 over Ontario's Chris Gardner in the Final of the Village of Taunton Mills Gord Carroll Curling Classic, held November 13 - 16, 2014 at the Whitby Curling Club in Whitby, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Epping won 3-2 over Ian MacAulay (Ottawa, ON) in the semifinals of the 2014 Village of Taunton Mills Gord Carroll Curling Classic in Whitby, Ontario, Canada; and won 7-4 over Shannon Beddows (Cannington, ON) in the quarterfinals.

Epping finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Epping defeated Jim Bell (Toronto, ON) 7-2, then won 8-2 against Joe Frans (St Thomas , ON) and 6-1 against Ontario's Mark Kean in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Village of Taunton Mills Gord Carroll Curling Classic Championship title, Epping earned 11.950 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 7th place overall with 189.844 total points. Epping ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 116.025 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

2022: Luc Violette
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett
Chaska, MN
2014: John Epping
John Epping, Travis Fanset, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2013: Wayne Tuck Jr.
Wayne Tuck Jr., Chad Allen, Jay Allen, Caleb Flaxey
, ON
2012: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Wayne Middaugh, Brent Laing, Craig Savill
Coldwater, ON
2011: Peter Corner
Peter Corner, Graeme McCarrel, Joe Frans, Darryl Prebble
, ON
2010: John Epping
John Epping, Scott Bailey, Darryl Prebble, Trevor Wall
Toronto, ON
2009: Peter Corner
Peter Corner, Graeme McCarrel, Ian Tetley, Brad Savage
Brampton, ON
2008: Pat Duggan
Pat Duggan, Rob Lipsett, Patrick Greenman, Paul Madgett
Toronto, ON

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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