Genner Runner-Up at Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships

SKIP
Mathias
Genner

Third
Jonas
Backofen

Second
Martin
Reichel

Lead
Florian
Mavec

Mathias Genner (Kitzbuehel, AUT) lost 6-4 to Rob Retchless (Preston, ENG) in the Final of the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships, held November 18 - 25 at the Perth Curling Club in Perth, Scotland. To advance to the championship game, Genner won 6-4 over Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) in the semifinals of the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships in Perth, Scotland, Scotland; and won 9-3 over Timothy Verreycken (Zemst, BEL) in the quarterfinals. of the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships in Perth, Scotland, Scotland;

Genner finished 5-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Genner defeated James Pougher (Hawarden, WAL) 8-6, then won 14-4 against Lukas Matt (Liechtenstein, LIE). Genner went on to lose 8-6 against Eduard Nikolov (Kyiv, UKR). Genner responded with a 9-7 win over Ireland's John Wilson. Genner won 10-4 against Gontzal Garcia (San Sebastian, ESP), then won 11-3 against Retchless. Genner went on to lose 7-5 against Juraj Gallo (Bratislava, SVK) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships, Genner take home 5.500 world rankings points, moving up 7 spots the World Ranking Standings into 93rd place overall with 35.688 total points. Genner ranks 77th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 25.938 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

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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