Bale Runner-Up at 2017 The Sunova Spiel at East St. Paul

SKIP
Travis
Bale

Third
Andrew
Irving

Second
Geoff
Lang

Lead
Brad
Van Walleghem

Travis Bale (Winnipeg, MB) lost 6-4 to David Bohn (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the The Sunova Spiel at East St. Paul, held November 24 - 27, 2017 at the East St. Paul Curling Club in Winnipeg, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Bale won 8-5 over Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2017 The Sunova Spiel at East St. Paul in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; and won 8-3 over Riley Smith (Winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2017 The Sunova Spiel at East St. Paul in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;

Bale finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bale defeated Cameron Bryce (Stirling, SCO) 8-3, then won 7-1 against Dennis Bohn (Winnipeg, MB) and 6-1 against JT Ryan (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the The Sunova Spiel at East St. Paul, Bale take home 17.272 world rankings points along with the $1,800CDN prize, moving up 16 spots the World Ranking Standings into 72nd place overall with 75.868 total points. Bale ranks 50th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 54.413 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: Sean Grassie
Sean Grassie, Tyler Drews, Daryl Evans, Rodney Legault
Winnipeg, MB
2018: Braden Calvert
Braden Calvert, Kyle Kurz, Ian McMillan, Rob Gordon
Winnipeg, MB
2017: David Bohn
David Bohn, Justin Richter, Tyler Forrest, Bryce J. McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Taylor McIntyre
Taylor McIntyre, Sam Good, Riley Smith, Jared Hancox
Winnipeg, MB
2014: Sean Grassie
Sean Grassie, Corey Chambers, Kody Janzen, Stuart Shiells
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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