Dunstone Reaches 2021 IG Wealth Management Western Showdown Quarters

SKIP
Matt
Dunstone

Third
Braeden
Moskowy

Second
Kirk
Muyres

Lead
Dustin
Kidby

Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) qualified for the 2021 IG Wealth Management Western Showdown playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-2 against Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT).

Dunstone finished 5-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dunstone defeated Cody Mitchell (Swift Current, SK) 8-0, then went on to lose 6-3 against Soo-Hyuk Kim (Gyeongbuk, KOR). Dunstone responded with a 8-2 win over Michael Carss (Saskatoon, SK). Dunstone won 4-3 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). Dunstone went on to lose 6-2 against Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB). Dunstone responded with a 6-5 win over Jeremy Harty (Calgary, AB). Dunstone won 6-5 against Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Dunstone earned 24.703 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the IG Wealth Management Western Showdown. Dunstone gained 8.484 points improving upon their best 2 events, though dropped 3 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 10thplace overall with 192.003 total points. Dunstone ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 64.647 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	38	25	0	0.603	13-6	8-8	5-7	1-1	0-4

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	500	382	317	7.64	6.34	1.30	4.48	4.16	1.71	1.52	1.36

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	261	300	65	42	8-0	21-0	68-11	1.15	0.25	0.44	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	239	82	252	26	2-5	3-10	11-63	0.34	1.05	0.49	0.25

2023: Yannick Schwaller
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Yannick Schwaller, Sven Michel, Pablo Lachat
Geneve, SUI
2022: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2021: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, John Morris, B.J. Neufeld, Ben Hebert
Calgary, 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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