Murdoch6-1 at 2016 EURONICS European Masters

SKIP
David
Murdoch

Third
Greg
Drummond

Second
Scott
Andrews

Lead
Michael
Goodfellow

David Murdoch (Stirling, SCO) finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Murdoch defeated Tom Brewster (Aberdeen, SCO) 5-4, then won 4-1 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) and 8-1 against Reto Keller (Bern, SUI). Murdoch won 7-3 against Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED), then won 5-4 against Kyle Smith (Perth, SCO). Murdoch went on to lose 5-3 against Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI). Murdoch responded with a 7-1 win over Jia Liang Zang (Harbin, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the EURONICS European Masters Championship title, Murdoch earned 27.038 world rankings points along with the $10,600CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 12th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 1.353 after improving upon their best so far this season. Murdoch ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 271.237 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

2017: Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Kyle Waddell, Cameron Smith
Stirling, SCO
2016: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2015: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Kristian Lindstroem, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2014: Pascal Hess
Pascal Hess, Florian Meister, Meico Oehninger, Stefan Meienberg
Zug, SUI
2013: Oskar Eriksson
Kristian Lindstroem, Oskar Eriksson, Markus Eriksson, Christoffer Sundgren
, SWE
2012: Thomas Ulsrud
Thomas Ulsrud, Torger Nergaard, Christoffer Svae, Haavard Vad Petersson
Oslo, NOR

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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