Thomas5-2 at 2012 Kariuzawa International

SKIP
Colin
Thomas

Third
Cory
Schuh

Second
Chris
Ford

Lead
Spencer
Wicks

Colin Thomas (St. John's, NL) finished 5-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Thomas lost 3-2 to Norway's Thomas Lovold, then responded with a 7-6 win over Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong Gyeongbuk, KOR). Thomas won 6-4 against Yuta Matsumura (Nagano, JPN), then won 6-4 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) and 6-2 against Nobuaki Mutoh (Kariuzawa, JPN). Thomas went on to lose 9-1 against Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN). Thomas responded with a 8-1 win over Jamie Boutin (Mannheim, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Kariuzawa International, Thomas take home 7.500 world rankings points, moving up 29 spots the World Ranking Standings into 95th place overall with 19.500 total points. Thomas ranks 105th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.500 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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