CHAMPION: Wark Wins 2014 Vancouver Island Shootout

Victoria, British Columbia

SKIP
Sarah
Wark

Third
Simone
Brosseau

Second
Michelle
Allen

Lead
Rachelle
Kallechy

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	8.09
PA/G:	5.53
Hammer Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.46
Steal Efficiency:	0.32

Sarah Wark (Victoria, BC) won 6-3 over Diane Gushulak (New Westminster, BC) in the Final Wark advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Vancouver Island Shootout, held November 21 - 23, 2014 at the Victoria Curling Club in Victoria, Canada. of the 2014 Vancouver Island Shootout in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada;

Wark finished 4-1 in the 6-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Wark defeated Yukon's Sarah Koltun 6-5, then won 11-2 against Amy Gibson (Vancouver, BC) and 6-4 against Dailene Sivertson (Victoria , BC). Wark went on to lose 7-3 against Stephanie Prinse (Surrey, BC). Wark responded with a 6-5 win over Gushulak in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Vancouver Island Shootout Championship title, Wark earned 0.000 world rankings points along with the $2,600CDN first prize cheque. For week 13 of the event schedule, Wark did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 165th to 167th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 1.925 total points. Wark ranks 106th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.925 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

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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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