Hess Runner-Up at 2017 Dumfries Challenger Series

SKIP
Jan
Hess

Third
Simon
Gloor

Second
Simon
Hoehn

Lead
Reto
Schoenenberger

Jan Hess (Zug, SUI) lost 5-3 to Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO) in the Final of the Dumfries Challenger Series, held December 14 - 17, 2017 at the Idylwylde Golf and Country Club in Sudbury, Canada.

Hess finished 3-2 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hess defeated Jiri Candra (Prague, CZE) 8-6, then won 7-5 against Cameron Bryce (Stirling, SCO) and 7-3 against Andrin Schnider (St. Gallen, SUI). Hess went on to lose 7-6 against Bjorn Jungen (Adelboden, SUI). Hess lost 5-3 to Graham Sloan (Dumfries, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Dumfries Challenger Series, Hess take home 12.365 world rankings points along with the $3,452CDN prize, moving up 97 spots the World Ranking Standings into 189th place overall with 20.175 total points. Hess ranks 136th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 16.530 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

2019: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle
Stirling, SCO
2018: Jaap van Dorp
Wouter Gosgens, Jaap van Dorp, Laurens Hoekman, Carlo Glasbergen
Zoetermeer, NED
2017: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2016: Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Kyle Waddell, Cameron Smith
Stirling, SCO
2015: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Duncan Menzies, Bobby Lammie, Gregor Cannon
Edinburgh, SCO
2014: Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr., Thomas Muirhead
Aberdeen, UK

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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