Tao3-0 at Alberta Boston Pizza Cup Qualiifier

SKIP
Johnson
Tao

Third
Jaedon
Neuert

Second
Ben
Morin

Lead
Adam
Naugler

Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB) finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tao defeated Craig MacAlpine (Edmonton, AB) 10-4, then won 12-5 against Brandt Holt (Sherwood Park, AB) and 9-3 against Ryan Norman (Slave Lake, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Alberta Boston Pizza Cup Qualiifier Championship title, Tao earned 7.500 world rankings points. Tao move up 6 spots after posting a net gain of 0.0089999999999932 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 68th overall with 59.535 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Tao ranks 76th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 37.063 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	29	21	0	0.580	2-4	1-3	1-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	400	288	260	7.20	6.50	0.70	4.65	4.08	1.55	1.60	1.28

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	193	209	63	23	2-0	17-3	40-16	1.08	0.33	0.35	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	207	79	197	28	2-0	2-14	12-47	0.38	0.95	0.50	0.28

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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