Ursel4-3 at 2009 Cactus Pheasant Classic

Fourth
Jim
Cotter

SKIP
Bob
Ursel

Second
Kevin
Folk

Lead
Rick
Sawatsky

Bob Ursel (Kelowna, BC) finished 4-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ursel lost 5-3 to Sean Geall (New Westminster, BC), then responded with a 7-4 win over Thomas Dufour (Chamonix, FRA). Ursel went on to lose 7-1 against Markus Eggler (Basel, SUI). Ursel responded with a 6-5 win over Kerry Burtnyk (Winnipeg, MB). Ursel won 4-3 against Greg McAulay (Richmond, BC), then won 5-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Ursel went on to lose 6-4 against Ted Appelman (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Ursel earned 5.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week of the event schedule, Ursel did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Ursel ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

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