Lottenbach Runner-Up at 2019 Schweizer Cup

SKIP
Lucien
Lottenbach

Third
Rainer
Kobler

Second
Patrick
AbÃ¤cherli

Lead
Tom
Winkelhausen

Lucien Lottenbach (Zug, SUI) lost 8-6 to Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI) in the Final of the Schweizer Cup, held December 19 - 22, 2019 in Biel, Switzerland. To advance to the championship game, Lottenbach won 8-7 over Jan Hess (Zug, SUI) in the semifinals of the 2019 Schweizer Cup in Biel, Switzerland;

Lottenbach finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Lottenbach defeated Christian Bangerter (Bern, SUI) 10-2, then won 10-4 against Andrin Schnider (St. Gallen, SUI) and 7-3 against Noe Traub (Basel, SUI). Lottenbach went on to lose 5-3 against Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI). Lottenbach responded with a 7-3 win over Yves Wagenseil (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Schweizer Cup, Lottenbach take home 19.797 world rankings points along with the $4,022CDN prize. Lottenbach move up 10 spots after posting a net gain of 17.196 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 40th overall with 114.389 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Lottenbach ranks 37th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 93.036 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

2020: Andrin Schnider
Andrin Schnider, Oliver Widmer, Nicola Stoll, Fabian Schmid
, SUI
2019: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Sven Michel, Peter De Cruz, Valentin Tanner
Geneva, SUI
2018: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI

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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