CHAMPION: Calvert Wins 2015 World Junior Curling Championships

SKIP
Braden
Calvert

Third
Kyle
Kurz

Second
Lucas
Van Den Bosch

Lead
Brendan
Wilson

Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, CAN) won 6-3 over Switzerland's Yannick Schwaller in the Final of the World Junior Curling Championships, held February 28 - March 8, 2015 in Tallinn, Estonia.

Calvert finished 8-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Calvert defeated Gaute Nepstad (Oslo, NOR) 8-3, then went on to lose 7-4 against Artur Ali (Moscow, RUS). Calvert responded with a 6-4 win over Ethan Meyers (Minneapolis, USA). Calvert won 10-1 against Robert-Kent Pall (Tallinn, EST), then won 5-1 against Amos Mosaner (Trentino, ITA) and 3-2 against Sweden's Fredrik Nyman. Calvert won 10-4 against Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO), then won 5-3 against Switzerland's Yannick Schwaller and 6-5 against Korea's Ki Jeong Lee in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the World Junior Curling Championships Championship title, Calvert earned 8.000 world rankings points, moving up 8 spots the World Ranking Standings into 61st place overall with 34.300 total points. Calvert ranks 42nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 26.300 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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