Korte Reaches 2016 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic Quarters

SKIP
Bruce
Korte

Third
Kevin
Marsh

Second
Daniel
Marsh

Lead
Matt
Lang

Bruce Korte (Saskatoon , SK) qualified for the 2016 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-5 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB).

Korte finished 5-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Korte defeated Rui Liu (HARBIN, CHN) 8-3, then went on to lose 6-5 against Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK). Korte lost 5-4 to Kody Hartung (Saskatoon , SK) where Korte responded with a 7-3 win over Thomas Scoffin (Edmonton, AB). Korte won 7-3 against Hartung, then won 7-4 against SooHyuk Kim (Gangwon, KOR) and 6-5 against Mick Lizmore (Calgary, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Korte earned 25.734 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, moving up 7 spots the World Ranking Standings into 34th place overall with 126.566 total points. Korte ranks 39th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 29.957 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

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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