Gushue Reaches 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling Semifinals

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Mark
Nichols

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) run at the 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling came to an end in the semifinals with a 7-5 loss to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). of the 2018 Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling in Estevan, Saskatchewan;

Gushue finished 4-2 in the 7-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gushue defeated Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) 7-4, then went on to lose 8-4 against Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT). Gushue responded with a 7-2 win over John Epping (Toronto, ON). Gushue went on to lose 9-8 against Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB). Gushue responded with a 8-4 win over Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB). Gushue won 11-6 against Koe in their final qualifying round match.

Gushue earned 49.133 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling, dropping 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 3rd place overall with 497.944 total points. Gushue ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 237.329 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: John Epping
John Epping, Ryan Fry, Mathew Camm, Brent Laing
Toronto, ON
2018: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2016: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Braeden Moskowy, Derek Samagalski, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2010: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Richard Hart, Brent Laing, Craig Savill
Coldwater, ON

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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