CHAMPION: Sturmay Wins 2022 Boston Pizza Alberta Curling Tour Championship

Edmonton, Alberta

SKIP
Karsten
Sturmay

Third
Chris
Kennedy

Second
Glenn
Venance

Lead
Caleb
Boorse

Games:	8
Record:	6W - 2L
PF/G:	8.15
PA/G:	5.19
Hammer Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.39

Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) won 6-3 over Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Boston Pizza Alberta Curling Tour Championship, held March 31 - April 3, 2022 at the Leduc Curling Club in Leduc, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Sturmay won 9-4 over Darren Moulding (Lacombe, AB) in the semifinals of the 2022 Boston Pizza Alberta Curling Tour Championship in Leduc, Alberta, Canada;

Sturmay finished 4-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sturmay defeated Dallan Muyres (Fox Valley, SK) 8-4, then went on to lose 7-1 against Moulding. Sturmay responded with a 5-4 win over Warren Cross (Edmonton, AB). Sturmay won 6-2 against Ryan Parent (Edmonton, AB), then won 7-1 against Moulding in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Boston Pizza Alberta Curling Tour Championship Championship title, Sturmay earned 34.094 world rankings points along with the $8,000CDN first prize cheque. Sturmay move up 5 spots after posting a net gain of 31.577 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 22nd overall with 133.765 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sturmay ranks 22nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 133.765 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	44	41	0	0.518	12-7	6-10	3-4	0-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	622	434	436	6.98	7.01	-0.03	4.55	4.18	1.53	1.68	1.27

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	320	328	88	54	2-3	23-3	69-13	1.03	0.28	0.35	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	302	106	348	25	1-10	2-26	19-66	0.35	1.15	0.49	0.26

Bottcher Out!

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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