Epping Reaches 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup Semifinals

SKIP
John
Epping

Third
Mathew
Camm

Second
Patrick
Janssen

Lead
Tim
March

John Epping (Toronto, ON) run at the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup came to an end in the semifinals with a 9-5 loss to Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT). of the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup in Calgary, Alberta; Epping advanced through the quarterfinals with a 8-3 win over Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI). of the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup in Calgary, Alberta;

Epping finished 2-2 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Epping defeated Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) 7-6, then went on to lose 10-7 against Greg Balsdon (Kingston, ON). Epping lost 6-5 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) where Epping responded with a 5-3 win over John Shuster (Duluth, USA) in their final qualifying round match.

Epping earned 47.282 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Humpty's Champions Cup, remaining in 7th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 19.128 after improving upon their best so far this season. Epping ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 350.634 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2022: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2021: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. , Alan Hannah
Stirling, SCO
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2017: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2016: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Braeden Moskowy, Derek Samagalski, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, MB

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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