Bouchard/Charest Reaches 2022 Goldline Christmas Madness Semifinals

Veronique Bouchard/Jean-Francois Charest (Saguenay, QC) run at the 2022 Goldline Christmas Madness came to an end in the semifinals with a 7-6 loss to Lisianne Ouellet/Guillaume Rousseau (Riviere-du-Loup, QC). of the 2022 Goldline Christmas Madness in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada;

Bouchard/Charest finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bouchard/Charest defeated Leanne Fortin/Eric Fortin (Saguenay, QC) 10-6, then won 14-4 against Ouellet/Rousseau and 9-5 against Megane Fortin/Pierre-Olivier Roy (Chicoutimi, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

Bouchard/Charest earned 5.438 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Goldline Christmas Madness. Bouchard/Charest gained 5.937 points improving upon their best 4 events, though dropped 16 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 564thplace overall with 69.786 total points. Bouchard/Charest ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 47.126 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	21	15	0	0.583	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	249	253	198	10.16	7.95	2.21	5.14	4.86	1.98	1.64	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	119	154	67	0	14-2	7-3	19-9	1.29	0.56	0.34	0.39

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	130	99	131	0	2-3	11-7	16-31	0.76	1.01	0.45	0.42

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

CURLING HISTORY: A Prize Letter

In the run up to Christmas Day, 1893, the Aberdeen Peoples's Journal offered a prize of one guinea for the best letter about curling! That's the invitation... (read more)
EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)