Bottcher Reaches Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic Semifinals

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Ben
Hebert

Brendan Bottcher (Calgary, AB) run at the Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic came to an end in the semifinals with a 10-4 loss to Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene, ON). of the Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada; Bottcher advanced through the quarterfinals with a 7-3 win over Cameron de Jong (Penticton, BC). of the Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada;

Bottcher finished 4-1 in the 30-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Sebastien Robillard (Langley, BC) 9-2, then won 8-0 against Chris Jones (Penticton, BC) and 6-1 against Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB). Bottcher went on to lose 10-5 against Marco Hoesli (Glarus, SUI). Bottcher responded with a 7-2 win over Jared Kolomaya (Richmond, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

Bottcher earned 25.500 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic, remaining in 2nd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -19.75 after improving upon their best so far this season. Bottcher ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 254.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	53	21	0	0.716	11-4	9-1	3-3	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	547	445	294	8.14	5.37	2.76	4.64	3.64	1.75	1.48	1.72

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	260	332	34	51	15-0	19-1	61-3	1.28	0.13	0.45	0.11

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	287	113	260	43	4-3	4-16	17-48	0.39	0.91	0.61	0.26

2023: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Scott Howard, David Mathers, Tim March
Penetanguishene, ON
2021: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Glen Muirhead
Glen Muirhead, Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Cameron Smith
Perth, SCO
2017: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, 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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