Lottenbach Runner-Up at 2019 Latvia International Challenger

SKIP
Lucien
Lottenbach

Third
Rainer
Kobler

Second
Patrick
AbÃ¤cherli

Lead
Tom
Winkelhausen

Lucien Lottenbach (Zug, SUI) lost 6-5 to Daniel Magnusson (Karlstad, SWE) in the Final of the Latvia International Challenger, held October 24 - 27, 2019 in Tukums, Latvia. To advance to the championship game, Lottenbach won 6-4 over Tobias Thune (Hvidovre, DEN) in the semifinals of the 2019 Latvia International Challenger in Tukums, Latvia; and won 6-4 over Vadim Raev (Moscow, RUS) in the quarterfinals. of the 2019 Latvia International Challenger in Tukums, Latvia;

Lottenbach finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Lottenbach defeated Kirill Surovov (Dmitrov, RUS) 6-3, then won 16-3 against Mirac Ozkan (Eruzurum, TUR) and 8-2 against Harri Lill (Tallinn, EST). Lottenbach won 9-5 against Kriss Vonda (Riga, LAT) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Latvia International Challenger, Lottenbach take home 9.864 world rankings points along with the $1,158CDN prize. Lottenbach move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 5.176 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 60th overall with 82.172 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Lottenbach ranks 44th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 39.466 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

2022: Martins Truksans
Martins Truksans, Janis Klive, Arnis Veidemanis, Sandris Buholcs
Riga, LAT
2021: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Callum Kinnear, Mark Taylor, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2019: Daniel Magnusson
Daniel Magnusson, Robin Ahlberg, Anton Regosa, Sebastian Jones
Karlstad, SWE
2018: Wille Makela
Wille Makela, Kalle Kiiskinen, Teemu Salo, Paavo Kuosmanen
Hyvinkaa, FIN
2017: Rasmus Stjerne
Rasmus Stjerne, Johnny Frederiksen, Mikkel Poulsen, Oliver Dupont
Hvidovre, DEN

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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