CHAMPION: Hardie Wins 2017 CCT Aberdeen International Curling Championship

SKIP
Grant
Hardie

Third
Blair
Fraser

Second
Dave
Reid

Lead
Duncan
Menzies

Grant Hardie (Dumfries, SCO) won 5-2 over Rui Liu (HARBIN, CHN) in the Final of the CCT Aberdeen International Curling Championship, held March 15 - 19, 2017 in Aberdeen, Scotland. To advance to the championship game, Hardie won 7-3 over Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2017 CCT Aberdeen International Curling Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland; and won 7-2 over Dayna Deruelle (Brampton , ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2017 CCT Aberdeen International Curling Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland;

Hardie finished 5-2 in the 28-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hardie defeated Gustav Eskilsson (Skellefteï¿½, SWE) 9-4, then won 8-6 against Tom Brewster (Aberdeen, SCO). Hardie went on to lose 9-4 against David Murdoch (Stirling, SCO). Hardie responded with a 5-2 win over Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI). Hardie went on to lose 5-4 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Jar, NOR). Hardie responded with a 8-6 win over John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Hardie won 4-3 against Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the CCT Aberdeen International Curling Championship Championship title, Hardie earned 43.500 world rankings points along with the $9,117CDN first prize cheque, moving up 20 spots the World Ranking Standings into 53rd place overall with 135.864 total points. Hardie ranks 44th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 91.849 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

2023: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle
Stirling, SCO
2022: Sixten Totzek
Sixten Totzek, Marc Muskatewitz , Joshua Sutor, Dominik Greindl
Munich, GER
2020: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2019: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Sven Michel, Peter De Cruz, Valentin Tanner
Geneve, SUI
2018: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2017: Grant Hardie
Grant Hardie, Blair Fraser, Dave Reid, Duncan Menzies
Dumfries, SCO
2016: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO

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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