Kapp3-3 at 2021 Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge

SKIP
Benny
Kapp

Third
Felix
Messenzehl

Second
Johannes
Scheuerl

Lead
Magnus
Sutor

Benny Kapp (Fuessen, GER) finished 3-3 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kapp lost 8-1 to Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA), then responded with a 6-0 win over Kim Schwaller (Bern, SUI). Kapp won 6-5 against Giacomo Colli (Trentino, ITA). Kapp went on to lose 7-6 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Kapp responded with a 8-4 win over Andy Kapp (Fuessen, GER). Kapp went on to lose 7-3 against Martin Rios (Glarus, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Kapp earned 5.095 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 7 spots the World Ranking Standings into 102nd place overall with 31.359 total points. Kapp ranks 46th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 29.275 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

2022: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2021: Yves Stocker
Philipp Hoesli, Yves Stocker, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Simone Gonin
Pinerolo, ITA
2018: Amos Mosaner
Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Andrea Pilzer, Daniele Ferrazza
Trentino, ITA

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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