CHAMPION: MacDonald Wins 2015 Scottish Curling Championships

SKIP
Ewan
MacDonald

Third
Duncan
Fernie

Second
Ruairidh
Greenwood

Lead
Euan
Byers

Ewan MacDonald (Perth, SCO) won 9-6 over David Murdoch (Stirling, SCO) in the Final of the Scottish Curling Championships, held February 15 - 22, 2015 in Perth, Scotland.

MacDonald finished 6-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, MacDonald defeated Scotland's Ross McCleary 8-3, then went on to lose 5-3 against Kyle Smith (Perth, SCO). MacDonald responded with a 6-4 win over Murdoch. MacDonald won 7-4 against Stuart Taylor (Forfar, SCO), then won 9-7 against Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO) and 8-3 against David Mundell (Perth, SCO). MacDonald went on to lose 11-6 against David Edwards (Aberdeen, SCO). MacDonald lost 9-3 to Tom Brewster (Aberdeen, UK) where MacDonald responded with a 7-5 win over Cameron Bryce (Dumfries, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Scottish Curling Championships Championship title, MacDonald earned 9.440 world rankings points, moving up 23 spots the World Ranking Standings into 77th place overall with 24.370 total points. MacDonald ranks 97th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.440 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

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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