Jacobs Runner-Up at 2021 IG Wealth Management Western Showdown

SKIP
Brad
Jacobs

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
E.J.
Harnden

Lead
Ryan
Harnden

Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT) lost 8-1 to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the IG Wealth Management Western Showdown, held October 8 - 11, 2021 at the Swift Current Curling Club in Swift Current, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Jacobs won 7-5 over Colton Flasch (Saskatoon, SK) in the semifinals of the 2021 IG Wealth Management Western Showdown in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada; and won 6-2 over Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) in the quarterfinals.

Jacobs finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jacobs defeated Michael Carss (Saskatoon, SK) 8-2, then won 6-3 against Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) and 5-1 against Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the IG Wealth Management Western Showdown, Jacobs take home 45.289 world rankings points along with the $10,000CDN prize, remaining in 1st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 338.864 total points. Jacobs ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 96.981 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	51	18	0	0.739	17-3	9-4	7-2	3-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	534	442	287	8.28	5.37	2.90	4.49	3.76	1.84	1.43	1.74

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	255	358	41	41	17-0	23-1	76-6	1.40	0.16	0.54	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	279	84	246	52	1-1	5-16	12-43	0.30	0.88	0.64	0.21

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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