Bottcher4-1 at 2022 Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Ben
Hebert

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) finished 4-1 in the 30-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) 6-5, then won 12-4 against Denis Sutton (Victoria, BC) and 8-1 against Sebastien Robillard (Port Coquitlam, BC). Bottcher won 9-2 against Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK). Bottcher went on to lose 10-5 against Kyler Kleibrink (Calgary, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Bottcher earned 10.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 3rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -38.772 after improving upon their best so far this season. Bottcher ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 114.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	52	18	0	0.743	18-5	9-5	8-2	1-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	546	424	290	7.77	5.31	2.45	4.52	3.63	1.72	1.46	1.85

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	285	328	48	63	10-0	19-1	72-9	1.15	0.17	0.46	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	261	96	242	38	3-4	4-7	16-54	0.37	0.93	0.60	0.24

2023: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Scott Howard, David Mathers, Tim March
Penetanguishene, ON
2021: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Glen Muirhead
Glen Muirhead, Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Cameron Smith
Perth, SCO
2017: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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