Hood1-2 at Alberta Curling Series

SKIP
Anton
Hood

Third
Ben
Smith

Second
Brett
Sargon

Lead
Hunter
Walker

Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL) finished 1-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hood defeated Tyler Pfeiffer (Edmonton, AB) 8-3, then went on to lose 6-4 against Scott Webb (Grande Prairie, AB). Hood lost 7-6 to Xueqing Fei (Beijing, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

Hood earned 0.375 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 12 of the event schedule, Hood did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 131st to 139th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 18.704 total points. Hood ranks 114th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.313 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	16	21	0	0.432	10-1	2-4	1-2	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	273	212	185	7.77	6.78	0.99	4.47	4.47	1.74	1.52	1.06

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	141	146	50	20	5-0	9-3	27-6	1.04	0.35	0.34	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	132	66	135	9	3-1	2-6	14-36	0.50	1.02	0.49	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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