Whyte Runner-Up at 2022 Scottish Curling Championships

SKIP
Ross
Whyte

Third
Robin
Brydone

Second
Duncan
McFadzean

Lead
Euan
Kyle

Ross Whyte (Dumfries, SCO) lost 6-5 to Ross Paterson (Stirling, SCO) in the Final of the Scottish Curling Championships, held February 21 - 27, 2022 at the Dumfries Ice Bowl in Dumfries, Scotland.

Whyte finished 8-2 in the 6-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Whyte defeated Mark Watt (Perth, SCO) 7-6, then went on to lose 7-3 against James Craik (Forfar, SCO). Whyte responded with a 8-3 win over Jack Strawhorn (Dumfries, SCO). Whyte won 8-7 against Cameron Bryce (Kelso, SCO), then won 10-8 against Paterson and 10-3 against Watt. Whyte won 6-5 against Craik, then won 8-4 against Strawhorn and 10-3 against Bryce. Whyte went on to lose 6-4 against Paterson in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Scottish Curling Championships, Whyte take home 17.086 world rankings points. Whyte gained 9.406 points improving upon their best 6 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 13thplace overall with 227.977 total points. Whyte ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 177.607 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	44	22	0	0.667	10-5	13-3	11-3	5-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	503	372	303	7.40	6.02	1.37	4.41	4.19	1.68	1.44	1.39

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	255	317	48	37	12-0	16-2	67-5	1.24	0.19	0.44	0.15

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	248	55	255	33	0-1	3-11	6-58	0.22	1.03	0.59	0.17

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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