McEwen Runner-Up at 2019 Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic

SKIP
Mike
McEwen

Third
Reid
Carruthers

Second
Derek
Samagalski

Lead
Colin
Hodgson

Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB) lost 4-2 to Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic, held November 22 - 25, 2019 at the Penticton Curling Club in Penticton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, McEwen won 5-4 over Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO) in the semifinals of the 2019 Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada; and won 7-3 over Tyler Tardi (Surrey, BC) in the quarterfinals. of the 2019 Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada;

McEwen finished 4-1 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, McEwen defeated Sean Geall (New Westminster, BC) 6-4, then won 6-4 against John Morris (Regina, SK) and 6-3 against Jim Cotter (Vernon, BC). McEwen went on to lose 6-1 against John Epping (Toronto, ON). McEwen responded with a 6-1 win over Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic, McEwen take home 52.250 world rankings points along with the $14,800CDN prize, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 12th place overall with 338.008 total points. McEwen ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 183.548 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

2023: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Scott Howard, David Mathers, Tim March
Penetanguishene, ON
2021: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Glen Muirhead
Glen Muirhead, Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Cameron Smith
Perth, SCO
2017: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

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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