Bottcher Reaches Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling Semifinals

Edmonton, Alberta

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Darren
Moulding

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) run at the Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling came to an end in the semifinals with a 12-4 loss to John Epping (Toronto, ON). of the Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling in Leduc, Alberta;

Bottcher finished 5-1 in the 7 team Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling qualifying round, held November 27 - December 1 in , . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) 10-4, then won 9-3 against Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene, ON) and 5-4 against Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK). Bottcher went on to lose 5-3 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). Bottcher responded with a 5-4 win over Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT). Bottcher won 7-3 against Epping in their final qualifying round match.

Bottcher earned 49.663 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Home Hardware Canada Cup of Curling, remaining in 3rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 0.25699999999995 after improving upon their best so far this season. Bottcher ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 216.186 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	5	2	0	0.714	3-2	2-0	2-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2020	64	43	35	6.72	5.47	1.25	4.22	3.28	1.59	1.67	2.50

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	32	36	6	8	2-1	1-0	6-0	1.13	0.19	0.38	0.09

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	32	7	29	8	0-1	0-1	1-6	0.22	0.91	0.56	0.19

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

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