CHAMPION: Richard Wins 2022 BC Mens Curling Championship

SKIP
Jeff
Richard

Third
Brent
Pierce

Second
Jared
Kolomaya

Lead
Nicholas
Meister

Jeff Richard (Kelowna, BC) won 11-8 over Paul Cseke (Victoria, BC) in the Final of the BC Mens Curling Championship, held January 4 - 9, 2022 in Kamloops, British Columbia. To advance to the championship game, Richard won 7-5 over Jim Cotter (Vernon, BC) in the semifinals of the 2022 BC Mens Curling Championship in Kamloops, British Columbia;

Richard finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Richard defeated Josh Kennelly (Salmon Arm, BC) 8-6, then won 7-1 against Rob Nobert (Vernon, BC) and 9-2 against Sebastien Robillard (New Westminster, BC). Richard went on to lose 8-2 against Cseke. Richard responded with a 7-6 win over Cotter in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the BC Mens Curling Championship Championship title, Richard earned 18.375 world rankings points. Richard move up 33 spots after posting a net gain of 8.206 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 71st overall with 49.314 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Richard ranks 77th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 39.146 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	19	13	0	0.594	3-0	1-4	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	254	199	178	7.83	7.01	0.83	5.04	4.41	1.55	1.59	0.55

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	119	148	37	3	3-0	7-2	32-7	1.24	0.31	0.36	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	135	51	141	11	2-2	0-9	7-31	0.38	1.04	0.51	0.28

2022: Jeff Richard
Jeff Richard, Brent Pierce, Jared Kolomaya, Nicholas Meister
Kelowna, BC
2020: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Steve Laycock, Andrew Nerpin, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC
2019: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Steve Laycock, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky, Brad Wood
Vernon, BC
2018: Sean Geall
Sean Geall, Jeff Richard, Andrew Nerpin, David Harper
Kelowna, BC
2017: John Morris
Jim Cotter, John Morris, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC
2016: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Ryan Kuhn, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC
2015: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Ryan Kuhn, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon/Kelowna, BC
2014: John Morris
Jim Cotter, John Morris, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Kelowna, BC
2013: Andrew Bilesky
Andrew Bilesky, Steve Kopf, Derek Errington, Aaron Watson
New Westminster, BC
2012: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Kevin Folk, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Kelowna, BC

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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