CHAMPION: Cheal/Cheal Wins 2022 Finale Circuit GOLDLINE

Lauren Cheal/Greg Cheal (Valleyfield, QC) won 7-1 over Nathalie Gagnon/Francois Gionest (Sydney, AUS) in the Final of the Finale Circuit GOLDLINE, held April 8 - 11, 2022 in TBD, Quebec. To advance to the championship game, Cheal/Cheal won 7-6 over Emilie Desjardins/Robert Desjardins (Saguenay, QC) in the semifinals of the 2022 Finale Circuit GOLDLINE in TBD, Quebec; and won 9-3 over Edith Cottenoir/Yannick Martel (Saguenay, QC) in the quarterfinals.

Cheal/Cheal finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Cheal/Cheal defeated Aline Fellmann/Chris Kovalchuk (Montreal, QC) 7-6, then won 9-6 against Veronique Bouchard/Jean-Francois Charest (Saguenay, QC) and 7-5 against Emily Riley/Jesse Mullen (Saguenay, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Finale Circuit GOLDLINE Championship title, Cheal/Cheal earned 25.370 world rankings points along with the $1,300CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 778th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 62.354 total points. Cheal/Cheal ranks 35th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 62.354 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	13	15	0	0.464	2-0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	190	165	150	8.68	7.89	0.79	5.00	5.00	1.74	1.58	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	96	124	41	0	6-1	8-1	24-5	1.29	0.43	0.40	0.32

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	94	41	109	0	1-1	0-12	8-17	0.44	1.16	0.53	0.32

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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