Wendling Runner-Up at 2024 World Junior-B Curling Championships

SKIP
Wesley
Wendling

Third
Jackson
Bestland

Second
Kevin
Tuma

Lead
Jackson
Armstrong

Wesley Wendling (Wausau, USA) lost 7-4 to Johnson Tao (Edmonton, CAN) in the Final of the World Junior-B Curling Championships, held December 14 - 19, 2023 in Lohja, Finland. To advance to the championship game, Wendling won 7-2 over Jacob Schmidt (Hvidovre, DEN) in the semifinals of the 2024 World Junior-B Curling Championships in Lohja, Finland; and won 7-2 over Lorinc Tatar (Budapest, HUN) in the quarterfinals.

Wendling finished 5-1 in the 22-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Wendling defeated Ching Nam Cheng (Hong Kong, HKG) 8-6, then won 10-4 against Benjamin Holcombe (Kent, ENG). Wendling went on to lose 9-7 against William Becker (Naseby, NZL). Wendling responded with a 8-5 win over Roberts Buncis (Riga, LAT). Wendling won 10-5 against Vitor De Melo (Sao Paulo, BRA), then won 6-3 against Schmidt in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the World Junior-B Curling Championships, Wendling take home 5.500 world rankings points, moving up 15 spots the World Ranking Standings into 110th place overall with 27.162 total points. Wendling ranks 94th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 21.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	29	25	0	0.537	3-2	2-3	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	415	346	329	8.34	7.93	0.41	4.53	4.75	1.84	1.67	0.72

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	212	257	91	15	12-0	18-6	43-18	1.21	0.43	0.37	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	203	89	238	15	5-3	5-21	11-49	0.44	1.17	0.46	0.26

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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