CHAMPION: Sturmay Wins 2023 Ed Werenich Golden Wrench Classic presented by The Lodge Sasquatch Kitchen

SKIP
Karsten
Sturmay

Third
Kyle
Doering

Second
Kurtis
Goller

Lead
Glenn
Venance

Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) won 7-2 over Reid Carruthers (Morris, MB) in the Final of the Ed Werenich Golden Wrench Classic presented by The Lodge Sasquatch Kitchen, held January 26 - 29, 2023 at the Coyotes Curling Club in Tempe, United States. To advance to the championship game, Sturmay won 6-3 over Aaron Sluchinski (Calgary, AB) in the semifinals of the 2023 Ed Werenich Golden Wrench Classic presented by The Lodge Sasquatch Kitchen in Tempe, Arizona, United States; and won 8-3 over Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA) in the quarterfinals.

Sturmay finished 5-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sturmay defeated Bob Leclair (Tempe, AZ) 6-2, then won 5-2 against Justin McBride (Anaheim, CA) and 11-1 against Jordan Peters (Winnipeg, MB). Sturmay won 8-5 against Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN), then won 5-3 against Sluchinski in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Ed Werenich Golden Wrench Classic presented by The Lodge Sasquatch Kitchen Championship title, Sturmay earned 26.250 world rankings points along with the $7,968CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 17th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 11.25 after improving upon their best so far this season. Sturmay ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 129.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	60	28	0	0.682	9-2	10-9	3-3	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	624	509	380	8.16	6.09	2.07	4.89	3.96	1.67	1.54	1.15

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	301	371	76	38	9-1	27-2	79-13	1.23	0.25	0.44	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	323	138	304	34	1-8	6-20	24-49	0.43	0.94	0.60	0.30

2024: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Kyle Doering, Glenn Venance, Kurtis Goller
Edmonton, AB
2023: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Kyle Doering, Kurtis Goller, Glenn Venance, JD Lind
Edmonton, AB
2020: Jason Gunnlaugson
Jason Gunnlaugson, Alex Forrest, Adam Casey, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2019: Reid Carruthers
Mike McEwen, Reid Carruthers, Derek Samagalski, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, MB
2018: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, Pat Simmons, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
, MB
2017: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2016: Pat Simmons
Pat Simmons, John Morris, Carter Rycroft, Nolan Thiessen
, 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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