Mouat Reaches 2024 Astec Safety Challenge Semifinals

SKIP
Bruce
Mouat

Third
Grant
Hardie

Second
Bobby
Lammie

Lead
Hammy
McMillan Jr.

Bruce Mouat (STIRLING, SCO) run at the 2024 Astec Safety Challenge came to an end in the semifinals with a 6-4 loss to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). of the 2024 Astec Safety Challenge in Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada; Mouat advanced through the quarterfinals with a 8-5 win over Brendan Bottcher (Calgary, AB).

Mouat finished 3-0 in the 21-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mouat defeated Tyson Armstrong (Lloydminster, AB) 6-2, then won 8-5 against Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB) and 7-5 against Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Mouat earned 29.750 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Astec Safety Challenge. Mouat move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 22.25 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 3rd overall with 362.062 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Mouat ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 270.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	67	20	0	0.770	19-5	14-8	3-4	4-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	647	545	364	8.42	5.63	2.80	4.78	3.88	1.76	1.45	1.34

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	320	414	58	48	14-1	32-1	82-5	1.29	0.18	0.47	0.15

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	327	131	306	39	2-4	9-17	21-56	0.40	0.94	0.62	0.26

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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