CHAMPION: Arsenault Wins Invitation Valleyfield

Fourth
Julien
Tremblay

SKIP
Jean-Michel
Arsenault

Second
Jesse
Mullen

Lead
Philippe
Brassard

Jean-Michel Arsenault (Levis, QC) won 5-4 over Felix Asselin (Montreal, QC) in the Final of the Invitation Valleyfield, held September 28 - October 1 at the Valleyfield Curling Club in , Quebec. To advance to the championship game, Arsenault won 5-3 over Robert Desjardins (Saguenay, QC) in the semifinals of the Invitation Valleyfield in , Quebec; and won 5-1 over Steven Munroe (Quebec, QC) in the quarterfinals.

Arsenault finished 3-0 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Arsenault defeated Munroe 7-2, then won 7-4 against Simon Hebert (Valleyfield, QC) and 11-3 against P.N. Raju (Hyderabad, IN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Invitation Valleyfield Championship title, Arsenault earned 11.250 world rankings points along with the $2,500CDN first prize cheque. Arsenault move up 12 spots after posting a net gain of -1.172 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 66th overall with 50.391 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Arsenault ranks 56th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	36	15	0	0.706	6-3	1-5	2-3	0-0	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	395	341	238	8.63	6.03	2.61	5.01	4.05	1.72	1.49	0.94

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	193	264	42	23	10-0	16-4	56-6	1.37	0.22	0.48	0.15

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	202	77	196	14	2-2	0-6	13-46	0.38	0.97	0.59	0.28

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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