Crocker5-2 at 2012 Kariuzawa International

SKIP
Laura
Walker

Third
Sarah
Wilkes

Second
Jen
Gates

Lead
Pam
Feldkamp

Laura Crocker (Waterloo, ON) finished 5-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Crocker lost 5-4 to Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni, then responded with a 6-5 win over Korea's Ji-Sun Kim. Crocker won 6-4 against Satsuki Fujisawa (nagano, JPN), then won 7-4 against Kai Tsuchiya (Nagano, JPN). Crocker went on to lose 3-2 against Shinobu Aota (Aomori, JPN). Crocker responded with a 6-2 win over Bingyu Wang (Harbin, CHN). Crocker won 6-1 against Denmark's Madeleine Dupont in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Kariuzawa International Championship title, Crocker earned 11.250 world rankings points, moving up 10 spots the World Ranking Standings into 37th place overall with 45.775 total points. Crocker ranks 22nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 38.975 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

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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