Baumann3-8 at 2017 Ford World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
Alexander
Baumann

Third
Manuel
Walter

Second
Daniel
Herberg

Lead
Ryan
Sherrard

Alexander Baumann (Fuessen, GER) finished 3-8 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Baumann defeated Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) 6-5, then went on to lose 7-5 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). Baumann lost 8-2 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Baumann lost 7-4 to Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI). Baumann lost 7-4 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) where Baumann responded with a 6-5 win over Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN). Baumann went on to lose 8-2 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Baumann lost 8-5 to John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Baumann lost 8-7 to Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR) where Baumann responded with a 9-7 win over Alexey Stukalskiy (Moscow, RUS). Baumann went on to lose 7-1 against David Murdoch (Lockerbie, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

Baumann earned 7.781 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 34 of the event schedule, Baumann did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Baumann ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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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