Howald/Hess3-4 at 2020 SWISSCURLING Mixed Doubles Championship

Carole Howald/Jan Hess (Burgdorf, SUI) finished 3-4 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Howald/Hess lost 9-5 to Melanie Barbezat/Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI), then responded with a 9-5 win over Daniela Rupp/Kevin Wunderlin (Zug, SUI). Howald/Hess won 8-4 against Laura Engler/Marco Hefti (St. Gallen, SUI). Howald/Hess went on to lose 9-6 against Alina Paetz/Sven Michel (Aarau, SUI). Howald/Hess lost 8-7 to Lisa Gisler/Romano Meier (Baden, SUI) where Howald/Hess responded with a 12-5 win over Lara Stocker/Nicola Stoll (St. Gallen, SUI). Howald/Hess went on to lose 8-3 against Lea Huppi/Jonas Weiss (Kusnacht, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Howald/Hess earned 7.190 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 32 of the event schedule, Howald/Hess did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Howald/Hess ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

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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