Makela2-7 at 2019 Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships

Hyvinkaa, Finland

SKIP
Wille
Makela

Third
Kalle
Kiiskinen

Second
Teemu
Salo

Lead
Juha
Pekaristo

Games:	9
Record:	2W - 7L
PF/G:	4.51
PA/G:	9.27
Hammer Efficiency:	0.20
Steal Defense:	0.37
Force Efficiency:	0.32
Steal Efficiency:	0.10

Wille Makela (Hyvinkaa, FIN) finished 2-7 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Makela defeated Bartosz Dzikowski (Katowice, POL) 6-5, then went on to lose 9-1 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Makela lost 7-3 to Marc Muskatewitz (Baden Baden, GER). Makela lost 11-4 to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). Makela lost 9-7 to Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) where Makela responded with a 8-7 win over Mikhail Vaskov (Dmitrov, RUS). Makela went on to lose 6-2 against Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR). Makela lost 12-2 to Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Makela lost 10-4 to Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

Makela earned 6.391 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 28 spots the World Ranking Standings into 126th place overall with 28.756 total points. Makela ranks 81st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 28.756 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

Bottcher Out!

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong, Hardline Curling) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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