CHAMPION: Sluchinski Wins 2017 Avonair Cash Spiel

SKIP
Aaron
Sluchinski

Third
Dean
Mamer

Second
Kerr
Drummond

Lead
Dylan
Webster

Aaron Sluchinski (Airdrie, ) won 6-4 over De Jia Zou (Harbin, CHN) in the Final of the Avonair Cash Spiel, held September 29 - October 1, 2017 at the Avonair Curling Club in Edmonton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Sluchinski won 5-1 over Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) in the semifinals of the 2017 Avonair Cash Spiel in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and won 10-5 over Mike Hutchings (Morinville, AB) in the quarterfinals.

Sluchinski finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sluchinski defeated Matt Yeo (Beaumont, AB) 7-6, then won 3-1 against Danny Sherrard (Edmonton, ) and 5-1 against Alberta's Daylan Vavrek in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Avonair Cash Spiel Championship title, Sluchinski earned 21.074 world rankings points along with the $3,300CDN first prize cheque, moving up 49 spots the World Ranking Standings into 75th place overall with 44.765 total points. Sluchinski ranks 43rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 21.074 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

2022: Kody Hartung
Kody Hartung, Tyler Hartung, Brady Scharback, Brady Kendel
Saskatoon, SK
2021: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Chang-Min Kim, Jae Ik Jeon, Hak Kyun Kim , So Min Yoon
Uiseong, KOR
2019: Jeremy Harty
Jeremy Harty, Kyler Kleibrink, Joel Berger, Kurtis Goller
Calgary, AB
2018: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Jason Ginter, Glenn Venance
Edmonton, AB
2017: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Dean Mamer, Kerr Drummond, Dylan Webster
Airdrie,
2016: Glen Hansen
Glen Hansen, Dean Ross, Don Bartlett, George Parsons
Edmonton, AB
2015: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
, KOR
2014: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Jongduk Park, Taehwan Kim, Minhyeon Yoo
Gang Won, KOR
2013: Ted Appelman
Ted Appelman, Shawn Donnelly, Landon Bucholz, Bryce Bucholz
Edmonton, AB

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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