Korte Runner-Up at 2013 Weatherford Curling Classic

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

SKIP
Bruce
Korte

Third
Dean
Kleiter

Second
Roger
Korte

Lead
Rob
Markowsky

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	5.42
PA/G:	4.38
Hammer Efficiency:	0.21
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.69
Steal Efficiency:	0.22

Bruce Korte (Saskatoon, SK) lost 5-2 to Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) in the Final of the Weatherford Curling Classic, held November 29 - December 2, 2013 at the Estevan Curling Club in Estevan, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Korte won 5-4 over Steve Irwin (Brandon, MB) in the semifinals of the 2013 Weatherford Curling Classic in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada; and won 5-4 over Scott Bitz (Regina, SK) in the quarterfinals. of the 2013 Weatherford Curling Classic in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Korte finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Korte defeated Irwin 2-1, then won 7-4 against Jason Krupski (Regina, SK) and 5-3 against Scott Manners (North Battleford, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Weatherford Curling Classic, Korte take home 7.140 world rankings points along with the $6,000CDN prize, moving up 14 spots the World Ranking Standings into 58th place overall with 28.585 total points. Korte ranks 66th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.535 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	25	19	0	0.568	16-7	5-11	6-6	1-0	0-5

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	340	223	197	6.56	5.79	0.76	4.03	4.00	1.63	1.45	1.97

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	176	170	43	36	6-0	9-1	30-5	0.97	0.24	0.32	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	164	53	154	31	2-1	1-8	12-35	0.32	0.94	0.56	0.20

2016: Randy Bryden
Saskatoon, SK
2015: Josh Heidt
Kerrobert, SK
2014: Steve Laycock
Saskatoon, SK
2013: Rui Liu
Harbin, CHN

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