CHAMPION: Sturmay Wins 2023 SGI Canada Best of the West

SKIP
Karsten
Sturmay

Third
Kyle
Doering

Second
Glenn
Venance

Lead
Kurtis
Goller

Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) won 7-1 over Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the SGI Canada Best of the West, held April 20 - 23, 2023 at the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon, Canada. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Sturmay won 5-3 over Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK) to advance to the championship game. of the 2023 SGI Canada Best of the West in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Sturmay finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sturmay defeated Matthew McCrady (New Westminster , BC) 8-7, then won 6-4 against Daymond Bernath (Saskatoon, SK) and 7-6 against Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB). Sturmay won 7-2 against Kody Hartung (Saskatoon, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the SGI Canada Best of the West Championship title, Sturmay earned 22.500 world rankings points along with the $10,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 17th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 7.5 after improving upon their best so far this season. Sturmay ranks 17th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 168.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	60	28	0	0.682	9-2	10-9	3-3	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	624	509	380	8.16	6.09	2.07	4.89	3.96	1.67	1.54	1.15

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	301	371	76	38	9-1	27-2	79-13	1.23	0.25	0.44	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	323	138	304	34	1-8	6-20	24-49	0.43	0.94	0.60	0.30

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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