Michel6-3 at 2015 Le Gruyere European Curling Championship

SKIP
Sven
Michel

Third
Florian
Meister

Second
Simon
Gempeler

Lead
Stefan
Meienberg

Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI) finished 6-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Michel defeated Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS) 6-5, then went on to lose 7-4 against Joel Retornaz (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA). Michel responded with a 8-5 win over David Edwards (Aberdeen, SCO). Michel won 7-5 against Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE). Michel went on to lose 8-5 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Michel lost 7-3 to Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR) where Michel responded with a 6-4 win over Alexander Baumann (Fuessen, GER). Michel won 7-5 against Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT), then won 7-6 against Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN) in their final qualifying round match.

Michel earned 30.000 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Le Gruyere European Curling Championship, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 11th place overall with 176.663 total points. Michel ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 93.435 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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