Rocque Runner-Up at 2023 SGI Canada Best of the West

SKIP
Kelsey
Rocque

Third
Jenna
Loder

Second
Katherine
Doerksen

Lead
Melissa
Kurz

Kelsey Rocque (Winnipeg, MB) lost 6-1 to Corryn Brown (Kamloops, BC) in the Final of the SGI Canada Best of the West, held April 20 - 23, 2023 at the Nutana Curling Club in Saskatoon, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Rocque won 5-2 over Kayla Skrlik (Calgary, AB) in the semifinals of the 2023 SGI Canada Best of the West in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; and won 5-2 over Taylor Reese-Hansen (Victoria, BC) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 SGI Canada Best of the West in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Rocque finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Rocque defeated Jessica Mitchell (Saskatoon, SK) 5-4, then won 7-5 against Serena Gray-Withers (Edmonton, AB) and 7-4 against Elysa Crough (Edmonton, AB). Rocque went on to lose 6-3 against Brown in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the SGI Canada Best of the West, Rocque take home 16.500 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN prize, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 39th place overall with 89.813 total points. Rocque ranks 39th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 89.813 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	33	21	0	0.611	6-1	2-1	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	401	317	272	7.91	6.78	1.12	4.66	4.31	1.70	1.57	1.02

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	204	231	73	22	6-1	17-2	46-15	1.13	0.36	0.38	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	197	86	199	19	1-3	8-14	10-40	0.44	1.01	0.53	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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