Dunbar Runner-Up at Alberta Curling Series

SKIP
Andrew
Dunbar

Third
Mike
Lambert

Second
Morgan
Van Doesburg

Lead
John
Ritchie

Andrew Dunbar (Edmonton, AB) lost 8-6 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the Final of the Alberta Curling Series - Event 1, held October 13 - 15 at the Beaumont Curling Club in Beaumont, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Dunbar won 7-6 over Xueqing Fei (Beijing, CHN) in the semifinals

Dunbar finished 4-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dunbar defeated Adam Elsenheimer (Edmonton, AB) 6-4, then won 6-5 against Hirata and 7-6 against Jamie Koe (Yellowknife, NT). Dunbar won 7-5 against Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Alberta Curling Series - Event 1, Dunbar take home 5.500 world rankings points along with the $1,425CDN prize, moving up 13 spots the World Ranking Standings into 107th place overall with 28.059 total points. Dunbar ranks 97th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.688 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	14	16	0	0.467	0-0	1-1	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	228	142	176	6.23	7.72	-1.49	4.08	4.65	1.53	1.66	1.27

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	129	106	68	19	0-0	6-7	24-14	0.82	0.53	0.27	0.31

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	99	36	108	10	0-1	5-9	3-21	0.36	1.09	0.53	0.23

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: Kody Hartung
Kody Hartung, Tyler Hartung, Brady Scharback, Brady Kendel
Saskatoon, SK
2021: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Chang-Min Kim, Jae Ik Jeon, Hak Kyun Kim , So Min Yoon
Uiseong, KOR
2019: Jeremy Harty
Jeremy Harty, Kyler Kleibrink, Joel Berger, Kurtis Goller
Calgary, AB
2018: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Jason Ginter, Glenn Venance
Edmonton, AB
2017: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Dean Mamer, Kerr Drummond, Dylan Webster
Airdrie,
2016: Glen Hansen
Glen Hansen, Dean Ross, Don Bartlett, George Parsons
Edmonton, AB
2015: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
, KOR
2014: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Jongduk Park, Taehwan Kim, Minhyeon Yoo
Gang Won, KOR
2013: Ted Appelman
Ted Appelman, Shawn Donnelly, Landon Bucholz, Bryce Bucholz
Edmonton, AB

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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