Bottcher Runner-Up at 2015 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Tom
Appelman

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) lost 4-2 to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, held October 9 - 12, 2015 at the Crestwood Curling Club in Edmonton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Bottcher won 6-4 over Shaun Meachem (Saskatoon, SK) in the semifinals of the 2015 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and won 8-0 over Markus Hoiberg (Oppdal, NOR) in the quarterfinals. of the 2015 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Bottcher finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Jessi Wilkinson (Edmonton, AB) 7-3, then won 8-2 against Brock Virtue (Calgary , AB) and 6-3 against Kevin Park (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, Bottcher take home 37.985 world rankings points along with the $9,000CDN prize, remaining in 8th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 365.495 total points. Bottcher ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 120.945 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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