CHAMPION: Corbett Wins Kalamazoo Men's Classic

SKIP
Brandon
Corbett

Third
Derek
Corbett

Second
Aaron
Carlson

Lead
Daniel
Dudt

Brandon Corbett (Rochester, NY) won 5-3 over Garnet Eckstrand (Kalamazoo, MI) in the Final of the Kalamazoo Men's Classic, held October 13 - 15, 2017 at the Kalamazoo Curling Club in Kalamazoo, United States. To advance to the championship game, Corbett won 6-4 over Nicholas Servant (Sault Ste Marie, ON) in the semifinals of the Kalamazoo Men's Classic in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States;

Corbett finished 3-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Corbett defeated Servant 8-7, then won 4-3 against William Nordine (Kalamazoo, MI) and 8-3 against Matt Sussman (Toledo, OH) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Kalamazoo Men's Classic Championship title, Corbett earned 6.509 world rankings points along with the $1,287CDN first prize cheque, moving up 72 spots the World Ranking Standings into 202nd place overall with 12.263 total points. Corbett ranks 114th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.513 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: Dale Kelly
Dale Kelly, Mark Patterson, Ed DeSchutter, Aiden Poole
Chatham, ON
2018: Rick Law
Rick Law, Sean Boyle , Jason Wingerden
Belle River, ON
2017: Brandon Corbett
Brandon Corbett, Derek Corbett, Aaron Carlson, Daniel Dudt
Rochester, NY
2016: Sean Murray
Sean Murray, Mark Robinson, Nicholas Visnich, Alex Visnich
Pittsburgh, PA

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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