Bottcher3-3 at 2017 Home Hardware Road to the Roar Pre-Trials

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Darren
Moulding

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) finished 3-3 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher lost 8-5 to Jean-Michel Menard (Gatineau, QC), droppimg another game, 3-2 to William Lyburn (Winnipeg, MB) where Bottcher responded with a 7-6 win over Dayna Deruelle (Kingston, ON). Bottcher won 5-4 against Greg Balsdon (Kingston, ON), then won 6-5 against Pat Simmons (Winnipeg, MB). Bottcher went on to lose 8-3 against Charley Thomas (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Home Hardware Road to the Roar Pre-Trials Championship title, Bottcher earned 39.712 world rankings points, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 18th place overall with 280.577 total points. Bottcher ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 124.628 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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