Pierce Reaches King Cash Spiel Quarters

SKIP
Brent
Pierce

Third
Cody
Johnston

Second
Matthew
McCrady

Lead
Nicholas
Umbach

Brent Pierce (New Westminster, BC) qualified for the King Cash Spiel playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 7-5 against Jason Montgomery (Victoria, BC). of the King Cash Spiel in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada;

Pierce finished 2-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Pierce defeated Adam Fenton (New Westminster, BC) 12-9, then went on to lose 6-5 against Kyler Kleibrink (Langley, BC). Pierce responded with a 9-1 win over Trevor Ritchie (Vancouver, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

Pierce earned 4.500 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the King Cash Spiel. Pierce move up 6 spots after posting a net gain of 0.616 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 75th overall with 42.671 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Pierce ranks 52nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 23.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	26	12	0	0.684	4-0	4-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	289	246	182	8.51	6.30	2.21	5.02	3.84	1.70	1.64	1.14

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	139	172	31	17	5-0	11-1	37-5	1.24	0.22	0.43	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	150	74	151	16	2-5	4-10	11-28	0.49	1.01	0.51	0.31

2023: Jason Montgomery
Jason Montgomery, Chris Baier, Miles Craig, Troy Cowan
Victoria, BC
2022: Riku Yanagisawa
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2021: Sebastien Robillard
Sebastien Robillard, Bowie Abbis-Mills, Cody Tanaka, Nathan Small
New Westminster, BC
2019: Sean Geall
Sean Geall, Jared Kolomaya, Sebastien Robillard, Nicholas Meister
New Westminster, BC
2018: Tyler Tardi
Tyler Tardi, Sterling Middleton, Matthew Hall, Alex Horvath, Tyler Tardi
Langley, BC
2017: Sean Geall
Sean Geall, Grant Dezura, Andrew Nerpin, Brendan Willis
Kelowna, BC
2017: Dean Joanisse
Dean Joanisse, Paul Cseke, Jay Wakefield, John Cullen
Maple Ridge, BC
2014: Neil Dangerfield
Neil Dangerfield, Denis Sutton, Darren Boden, Glen Allen
Victoria, BC
2013: Sean Geall
Sean Geall, Ken Maskiewich, Sebastien Robillard, Kent Bird
New Westminster, BC
1994: Al Moore
Al Moore, Ross Graham, Peter VanLeeuwen, Kieron Hunt
North Vancouver, BC

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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