Birchard1-2 at Manitoba Viterra

SKIP
Daniel
Birchard

Third
Kelly
Fordyce

Second
Brody
Moore

Lead
Andrew
Peck

Daniel Birchard (Winnipeg, MB) finished 1-2 in the 22-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Birchard defeated Graham McFarlane (Winnipeg, MB) 7-2, then went on to lose 5-2 against William Lyburn (Winnipeg, MB). Birchard lost 9-6 to Jacques Gauthier (Winnipeg , MB) in their final qualifying round match.

Birchard earned 1.069 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Birchard gained -2.129 points improving upon their best 8 events, though dropped 5 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 121stplace overall with 34.496 total points. Birchard ranks 124th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 21.702 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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