Kovaleva Reaches 2019 Cargill Curling Training Centre Icebreaker Semifinals

SKIP
Alina
Kovaleva

Third
Maria
Komarova

Second
Galina
Arsenkina

Lead
Ekaterina
Kuzmina

Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg , RUS) run at the 2019 Cargill Curling Training Centre Icebreaker came to an end in the semifinals with a 5-1 loss to Tori Koana (Yamanashi, JPN). of the 2019 Cargill Curling Training Centre Icebreaker in Morris, Manitoba, Canada; of the 2019 Cargill Curling Training Centre Icebreaker in Morris, Manitoba, Canada;

Kovaleva finished 2-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kovaleva defeated Darcy Robertson (Winnipeg, MB) 5-2, then won 6-5 against Mackenzie Zacharias (Altona, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

Kovaleva earned 20.578 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Cargill Curling Training Centre Icebreaker, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 25th place overall with 158.929 total points. Kovaleva ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 20.578 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: Tracy Fleury
Tracy Fleury, Selena Njegovan, Liz Fyfe, Kristin MacCuish
East St. Paul, MB
2018: Darcy Robertson
Darcy Robertson, Karen Klein, Vanessa Foster, Theresa Cannon
Winnipeg, MB
2017: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Selena Njegovan, Liz Fyfe, Kristin MacCuish
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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