Leichter4-5 at 2017 Winter Universiade Men

SKIP
Alex
Leichter

Third
Nate
Clark

Second
Chris
Bond

Lead
Calvin
Weber

Alex Leichter (Boston, USA) finished 4-5 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Leichter lost 7-4 to Se Hyeon Seong (Uiseong, KOR), droppimg another game, 4-3 to Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) where Leichter responded with a 7-6 win over Gustav Eskilsson (Skelleftea, SWE). Leichter won 6-4 against Aaron Squires (Kitchener-Waterloo, CAN). Leichter went on to lose 5-4 against Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR). Leichter lost 7-5 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) where Leichter responded with a 7-5 win over Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS). Leichter went on to lose 9-7 against Bruce Mouat (Stirling, UK). Leichter responded with a 10-4 win over Daniel Alex Kim (Almaty, KAZ) in their final qualifying round match.

Leichter earned 3.549 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 25 of the event schedule, Leichter did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Leichter 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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