Purcell2-3 at HUB International Alberta Curling Series Major

SKIP
Owen
Purcell

Third
Ryan
Abraham

Second
Scott
Saccary

Lead
Adam
McEachren

Owen Purcell (Halifax, NS) finished 2-3 in the 17-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Purcell lost 8-5 to Cameron de Jong (Penticton, BC), then responded with a 5-1 win over Andrew Dunbar (Edmonton, AB). Purcell won 8-7 against Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED). Purcell went on to lose 8-3 against Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI). Purcell lost 10-6 to Gosgens in their final qualifying round match.

Purcell earned 4.125 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 8 of the event schedule, Purcell did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 40th to 41st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 93.938 total points. Purcell ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 35.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	39	27	0	0.591	8-2	7-3	4-1	2-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	479	405	339	8.46	7.08	1.38	4.93	4.18	1.72	1.70	0.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	230	284	66	26	10-0	20-2	58-12	1.23	0.29	0.43	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	249	121	273	17	1-5	7-22	22-63	0.49	1.10	0.40	0.33

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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