Epping3-3 at 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling

SKIP
John
Epping

Third
Mathew
Camm

Second
Brent
Laing

Lead
Craig
Savill

John Epping (Toronto, ON) finished 3-3 in the 7-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Epping defeated Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) 7-5, then won 6-3 against Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB). Epping went on to lose 7-2 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL). Epping lost 8-6 to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). Epping lost 7-4 to Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT) where Epping responded with a 7-5 win over Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

Epping earned 13.006 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Epping gained 6.517 points improving upon their best 7 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 6thplace overall with 388.038 total points. Epping ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 265.703 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: John Epping
John Epping, Ryan Fry, Mathew Camm, Brent Laing
Toronto, ON
2018: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2016: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Braeden Moskowy, Derek Samagalski, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2010: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Richard Hart, Brent Laing, Craig Savill
Coldwater, ON

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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