Birr

SKIP
Todd
Birr

Third
John
Benton

Second
Hunter
Clawson

Lead
Tom
O'Connor

Todd Birr (Blaine, MN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Birr finished 5-3 in the 5-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Birr lost 8-4 to Craig Brown (Madison, USA), then responded with a 9-6 win over Brady Clark (Seattle, WA). Birr went on to lose 6-2 against Heath McCormick (Blaine, USA). Birr responded with a 8-5 win over John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Birr won 9-8 against Clark, then won 5-3 against Brown. Birr went on to lose 7-2 against Shuster. Birr responded with a 8-6 win over McCormick in their final qualifying round match.

Birr earned 7.782 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 49th place overall with 126.072 total points. Birr ranks 62nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 41.668 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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