Michel Runner-Up at 2013 Cactus Pheasant Classic

SKIP
Sven
Michel

Third
Claudio
Paetz

Second
Sandro
Trolliet

Lead
Simon
Gempeler

Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI) lost 8-0 to Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Cactus Pheasant Classic, held October 24 - 27, 2013 in Brooks, Alberta. To advance to the championship game, Michel won 5-3 over Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR) in the semifinals of the 2013 Cactus Pheasant Classic in Brooks, Alberta; and won 6-4 over Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) in the quarterfinals.

Michel finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Michel defeated Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR) 5-3, then won 6-5 against Ulsrud and 4-1 against Rob Fowler (Brandon, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Cactus Pheasant Classic, Michel take home 25.000 world rankings points along with the $14,000CDN prize, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 12th place overall with 149.175 total points. Michel ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 58.665 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	68	45	0	0.602	44-9	16-27	15-12	1-1	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	883	615	536	6.96	6.07	0.89	4.28	3.99	1.63	1.52	1.73

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	424	477	94	68	9-1	30-5	103-10	1.13	0.22	0.40	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	459	138	442	85	2-8	6-19	26-98	0.30	0.96	0.56	0.20

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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