Bottcher4-4 at 2017 Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Darren
Moulding

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) finished 4-4 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK) 8-6, then went on to lose 6-5 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL). Bottcher lost 7-6 to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). Bottcher lost 10-6 to John Morris (Vernon, BC) where Bottcher responded with a 9-3 win over Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, ON). Bottcher won 7-6 against John Epping (Toronto, ON). Bottcher went on to lose 6-4 against Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB). Bottcher responded with a 8-7 win over Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

Bottcher earned 17.802 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 14th place overall with 333.993 total points. Bottcher ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 178.044 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

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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