Bottcher4-3 at 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic

Edmonton, Alberta

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Mick
Lizmore

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Games:	7
Record:	4W - 3L
PF/G:	6.23
PA/G:	5.28
Hammer Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.72
Steal Efficiency:	0.14

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) finished 4-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher lost 7-5 to Josh Heidt (Kerrobert, SK), then responded with a 7-4 win over Andrew Bilesky (New Westminster, BC). Bottcher won 6-3 against Dean Ross (Edmonton, AB). Bottcher went on to lose 5-4 against Ted Appelman (Edmonton, AB). Bottcher responded with a 4-2 win over Robert Schlender (Airdrie, AB). Bottcher won 4-3 against Bruce Korte (Saskatoon, SK). Bottcher went on to lose 4-3 against Brent Pierce (New Westminster, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

Bottcher earned 1.725 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 25th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 64.980 total points. Bottcher ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 21.030 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	39	32	0	0.549	19-8	11-19	10-10	5-0	1-4

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	544	375	334	6.89	6.14	0.75	4.38	4.10	1.58	1.50	1.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	256	278	64	31	4-0	15-1	58-12	1.09	0.25	0.34	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	288	97	270	52	3-5	5-16	14-47	0.34	0.94	0.61	0.22

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