Craik Reaches 2022 Euro Super Series Quarters

SKIP
James
Craik

Third
Mark
Watt

Second
Angus
Bryce

Lead
Blair
Haswell

James Craik (Stirling, SCO) qualified for the 2022 Euro Super Series playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-4 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA).

Craik finished 3-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Craik defeated Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI) 8-5, then went on to lose 8-4 against John Shuster (Duluth, MN). Craik lost 7-5 to Kyle Waddell (Glasgow, SCO) where Craik responded with a 10-3 win over ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR). Craik won 4-3 against Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Craik earned 16.500 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Euro Super Series, moving up 18 spots the World Ranking Standings into 35th place overall with 66.785 total points. Craik ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 21.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	45	26	0	0.634	6-5	5-4	2-2	1-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	519	418	326	8.05	6.28	1.77	4.68	4.22	1.72	1.49	1.10

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	262	307	85	31	12-1	18-2	61-14	1.17	0.32	0.39	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	257	111	241	26	3-1	5-15	18-51	0.43	0.94	0.57	0.29

2023: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. , Michael Goodfellow
STIRLING, SCO
2022: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2021: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI

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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