Steep Runner-Up at 2023 Capital Curling Valley Open

Fourth
Cameron
Goodkey

SKIP
Sam
Steep

Second
Thomas
Ryan

Lead
Adam
Vincent

Sam Steep (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON) lost 7-5 to Jordan McNamara (Ottawa, ON) in the Final of the Capital Curling Valley Open, held November 3 - 5, 2023 in Carleton Place, Ontario. To advance to the championship game, Steep won 5-4 over Jacob Lamb (Dundas, ON) in the semifinals of the 2023 Capital Curling Valley Open in Carleton Place, Ontario; and won 5-4 over Colten Steele (Dartmouth, NS) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 Capital Curling Valley Open in Carleton Place, Ontario;

Steep finished 3-0 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Steep defeated Bryan Cochrane (Russell, ON) 7-4, then won 7-5 against Jaimee Gardner (Ottawa, ON) and 10-1 against Laura Johnston (North Bay, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Capital Curling Valley Open, Steep take home 2.750 world rankings points along with the $1,500CDN prize, remaining in 76th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 0.5 after improving upon their best so far this season. Steep ranks 83rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 17.188 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	20	20	0	0.500	5-6	1-5	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	262	208	212	7.94	8.09	-0.15	4.47	4.73	1.78	1.71	0.80

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	136	142	78	9	4-2	14-1	25-18	1.04	0.57	0.34	0.37

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	126	66	134	12	3-5	3-9	10-26	0.52	1.06	0.46	0.32

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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