Murdoch7-2 at 2014 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

SKIP
David
Murdoch

Third
Greg
Drummond

Second
Scott
Andrews

Lead
Michael
Goodfellow

David Murdoch (Stirling, SCO) finished 7-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Murdoch lost 10-6 to Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN), then responded with a 7-3 win over Andrey Drozdov (Moscow, RUS). Murdoch won 9-4 against Tomi Rantamaki (Helsinki, FIN). Murdoch went on to lose 8-6 against Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI). Murdoch responded with a 7-6 win over Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT). Murdoch won 9-5 against Jiri Snitil (Praha, CZE), then won 9-5 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) and 9-2 against Joffrey Vincent (Besancon, FRA). Murdoch won 6-5 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR) in their final qualifying round match.

Murdoch earned 30.000 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Le Gruyere European Curling Championships, moving up 8 spots the World Ranking Standings into 17th place overall with 119.818 total points. Murdoch ranks 14th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 61.155 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	45	35	0	0.563	24-12	16-22	11-12	3-1	1-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	634	439	390	6.92	6.15	0.77	4.54	4.10	1.52	1.50	1.36

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	308	327	61	47	6-0	10-3	78-4	1.06	0.20	0.36	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	326	112	329	39	2-7	7-15	13-66	0.34	1.01	0.58	0.24

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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