Michel Runner-Up at 2014 Swiss Curling League Finals

SKIP
Sven
Michel

Third
Claudio
Paetz

Second
Sandro
Trolliet

Lead
Simon
Gempeler

Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI) lost 6-4 to Peter de Cruz (Geneve, SUI) in the Final of the Swiss Curling League Finals, held March 3 - 9, 2014 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

Michel finished 6-4 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Michel lost 8-3 to Marc Pfister (Bern, SUI), then responded with a 6-3 win over Christian Moser (Uitikon, SUI). Michel won 7-2 against Pascal Hess (Zug, SUI). Michel went on to lose 6-2 against Mario Freiberger (Zug, SUI). Michel lost 9-8 to de Cruz where Michel responded with a 4-2 win over Pfister. Michel won 7-6 against Moser, then won 7-5 against Hess and 7-4 against Freiberger. Michel went on to lose 9-6 against de Cruz in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Swiss Curling League Finals, Michel take home 5.000 world rankings points. For week 30 of the event schedule, Michel did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 11th place on the World Ranking Standings with 219.940 total points. Michel ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 129.430 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	68	45	0	0.602	44-9	16-27	15-12	1-1	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	883	615	536	6.96	6.07	0.89	4.28	3.99	1.63	1.52	1.73

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	424	477	94	68	9-1	30-5	103-10	1.13	0.22	0.40	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	459	138	442	85	2-8	6-19	26-98	0.30	0.96	0.56	0.20

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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