Baumann4-5 at 2016 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

SKIP
Alexander
Baumann

Third
Manuel
Walter

Second
Marc
Muskatewitz

Lead
Sebastian
Schweizer

Alexander Baumann (Fuessen, GER) finished 4-5 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Baumann defeated Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) 3-2, then won 7-6 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Baumann went on to lose 5-3 against David Sik (Prague, CZE). Baumann lost 8-4 to Aku Kauste (Helsinki, FIN) where Baumann responded with a 9-8 win over Alexey Stukalskiy (Moscow, RUS). Baumann went on to lose 8-3 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Baumann responded with a 7-4 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Baumann went on to lose 9-1 against Joel Retornaz (Turin, ITA). Baumann lost 12-5 to Kyle Smith (Perth, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

Baumann earned 5.528 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 8 spots the World Ranking Standings into 121st place overall with 26.771 total points. Baumann ranks 134th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.321 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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