CHAMPION: Adams Wins Saville U25 Challenge

Calgary, Alberta

SKIP
Cole
Adams

Third
Derek
Bowyer

Second
Evan
Crough

Lead
Tyson
Toews

Games:	5
Record:	5W - 0L
PF/G:	9.71
PA/G:	4.29
Hammer Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.80
Steal Efficiency:	0.31

Cole Adams (Calgary, AB) won 4-3 over Adam Elsenheimer (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Saville U25 Challenge, held October 20 - 22 at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton, Canada. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Adams won 9-4 over Kinley Burton (Edmonton, AB) to advance to the championship game. of the Saville U25 Challenge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; of the Saville U25 Challenge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Adams finished 3-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Adams defeated Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB) 9-1, then won 7-3 against Ronan Peterson (Edmonton, AB) and 5-4 against Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Saville U25 Challenge Championship title, Adams earned 11.250 world rankings points along with the $1,800CDN first prize cheque. Adams move up 23 spots after posting a net gain of 9.361 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 93rd overall with 33.693 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Adams ranks 50th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 24.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	26	26	0	0.500	1-4	2-4	0-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	393	280	287	7.12	7.30	-0.18	4.58	4.40	1.56	1.66	1.02

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	195	215	65	22	5-1	16-5	39-8	1.10	0.33	0.35	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	198	65	222	18	0-4	1-17	12-46	0.33	1.12	0.48	0.26

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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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