CHAMPION: Calvert Wins 2016 Man Curl Tour Classic

SKIP
Braden
Calvert

Third
Kyle
Kurz

Second
Lucas
Van Den Bosch

Lead
Brendan
Wilson

Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) won 9-3 over Richard Muntain (Pinawa, MB) in the Final of the Man Curl Tour Classic, held October 7 - 10, 2016 at the Thistle Curling Club in Winnipeg, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Calvert won 5-3 over Trevor Loreth (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2016 Man Curl Tour Classic in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; and won 6-0 over William Kuran (Winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2016 Man Curl Tour Classic in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;

Calvert finished 3-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Calvert defeated Sean Grassie (Winnipeg, MB) 9-1, then went on to lose 4-3 against Kuran. Calvert responded with a 6-3 win over Justin Reynolds (Winnipeg Beach, MB). Calvert won 7-5 against Tian Yu Zhang (Harbin, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Man Curl Tour Classic Championship title, Calvert earned 20.250 world rankings points along with the $3,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 53 spots the World Ranking Standings into 86th place overall with 41.261 total points. Calvert ranks 42nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 29.289 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

2019: Tanner Horgan
Tanner Horgan, Colton Lott, Kyle Doering, Tanner Lott
Winnipeg Beach, MB
2018: Riley Smith
Riley Smith, Nick Curtis, Jared Hancox, Trevor Grenkow
Winnipeg, MB
2017: David Bohn
David Bohn, Justin Richter, Tyler Forrest, Bryce J. McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2016: Braden Calvert
Braden Calvert, Kyle Kurz, Lucas Van Den Bosch, Brendan Wilson
Winnipeg, MB

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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