Sturmay3-5 at 2023 Tim Hortons Brier

SKIP
Karsten
Sturmay

Third
JD
Lind

Second
Kyle
Doering

Lead
Glenn
Venance

Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) finished 3-5 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sturmay defeated Scott Jones (Moncton, NB) 7-3, then went on to lose 10-3 against Brendan Bottcher (Calgary, AB). Sturmay responded with a 7-6 win over Thomas Scoffin (Whitehorse, YK). Sturmay went on to lose 8-5 against Jacques Gauthier (Victoria, BC). Sturmay lost 6-3 to Felix Asselin (Montreal, QC) where Sturmay responded with a 9-4 win over Tyler Smith (Charlottetown , PEI). Sturmay went on to lose 8-3 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Sturmay lost 9-8 to Mike McEwen (Toronto, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Sturmay earned 10.688 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 17th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -0.249 after improving upon their best so far this season. Sturmay ranks 17th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 160.750 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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