Schwaller7-1 at 2017 Qinghai International

SKIP
Yannick
Schwaller

Third
Romano
Keller-Meier

Second
Michael
Brunner

Lead
Marcel
Kaeufeler

Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI) finished 7-1 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Schwaller lost 9-6 to Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN), then responded with a 7-6 win over Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS). Schwaller won 7-5 against Greg Drummond (Stirling, SCO), then won 9-2 against Kristian Lindstroem (Lit, SWE) and 7-4 against Zhi Yu Wang (Changchun, CHN). Schwaller won 9-4 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR), then won 11-8 against Tanner Horgan (Sudbury, NONT) and 8-5 against Andrew Stopera (Chicago, IL) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Qinghai International Championship title, Schwaller earned 20.213 world rankings points along with the $8,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 6 spots the World Ranking Standings into 49th place overall with 141.359 total points. Schwaller ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 88.219 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

2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Braeden Moskowy, Catlin Schneider, Dustin Kidby
Regina, SK
2017: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Romano Keller-Meier, Michael Brunner, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI

Sudbury's Jake and Tanner Horgan will ply their trade elsewhere next season as John Epping and Ian MacMillan explore options for the future.

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