Waddell Reaches Aberdeen International Curling Championship Semifinals

SKIP
Kyle
Waddell

Third
Craig
Waddell

Second
Mark
Taylor

Lead
Gavin
Barr

Kyle Waddell (Glasgow, SCO) run at the Aberdeen International Curling Championship came to an end in the semifinals with a 7-3 loss to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). of the Aberdeen International Curling Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland; Waddell advanced through the quarterfinals with a 6-2 win over Marco Hoesli (Glarus, SUI).

Waddell finished 3-2 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Waddell defeated Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) 5-4, then won 5-4 against Ross Craik (Stirling, SCO) and 6-3 against Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED). Waddell went on to lose 7-1 against Whyte. Waddell lost 0-0 to Gosgens in their final qualifying round match.

Waddell earned 21.250 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Aberdeen International Curling Championship. Waddell move up 16 spots after posting a net gain of 19.937 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 43rd overall with 78.251 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Waddell ranks 43rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 78.251 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	22	29	0	0.431	5-4	5-11	2-3	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	366	250	263	6.83	7.19	-0.36	4.13	4.43	1.66	1.62	1.45

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	190	191	66	30	5-1	12-4	40-7	1.01	0.35	0.36	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	176	59	197	23	0-7	4-10	12-39	0.34	1.12	0.51	0.22

2023: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle
Stirling, SCO
2022: Sixten Totzek
Sixten Totzek, Marc Muskatewitz , Joshua Sutor, Dominik Greindl
Munich, GER
2020: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2019: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Sven Michel, Peter De Cruz, Valentin Tanner
Geneve, SUI
2018: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2017: Grant Hardie
Grant Hardie, Blair Fraser, Dave Reid, Duncan Menzies
Dumfries, SCO
2016: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO

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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