Koe Runner-Up at 2017 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic

SKIP
Kevin
Koe

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
Brent
Laing

Lead
Ben
Hebert

Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) lost 6-2 to Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) in the Final of the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, held October 6 - 9, 2017 at the Crestwood Curling Club in Edmonton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Koe won 3-2 over Pat Simmons (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2017 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and won 5-3 over John Morris (Vernon, BC) in the quarterfinals. of the 2017 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Koe finished 4-1 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Koe defeated Adam Norget (Edmonton, AB) 6-5, then went on to lose 8-2 against Adam Casey (Regina, SK). Koe responded with a 8-5 win over Jeremy Harty (Calgary, AB). Koe won 4-2 against Ted Appelman (Edmonton, AB), then won 4-3 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, Koe take home 45.289 world rankings points along with the $9,000CDN prize, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 6th place overall with 432.196 total points. Koe ranks 27th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 49.026 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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