Karatas4-3 at 2015 Le Gruyere European Curling Championship

SKIP
Alican
Karatas

Third
Muhammet Oguz
Zengin

Second
Bilal Omer
Cakir

Lead
Kadir
Cakir

Alican Karatas (Eruzum, TUR) finished 4-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Karatas defeated France's Default 1-0, then went on to lose 9-7 against Alen Cadez (Zagreb, CRO). Karatas responded with a 9-2 win over Mantas Kulakauskas (Vilnius, LTU). Karatas went on to lose 6-5 against Alan Macdougall (Kent, ENG). Karatas responded with a 7-6 win over Israel's Adam Freilich. Karatas won 10-6 against Harri Lill (Tallinn, EST). Karatas went on to lose 7-6 against Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) in their final qualifying round match.

. For week 14 of the event schedule, Karatas did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 490th to 497th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 0.000 total points. Karatas ranks 341st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 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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