Harstad Reaches Sun City Cup Semifinals

SKIP
Andreas
Harstad

Third
Mathias
Braenden

Second
Michael
Mellemseter

Lead
Willhelm
Naess

Andreas Harstad (Oppdal, NOR) run at the Sun City Cup came to an end in the semifinals with a 7-2 loss to Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED). of the Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden; Harstad advanced through the quarterfinals with a 8-5 win over Magnus Ramsfjell (Trondheim, NOR).

Harstad finished 4-1 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Harstad defeated Mathias Genner (Kitzbuehel, AUT) 7-0, then won 5-4 against Joel Westerberg (Sundbyberg, SWE) and 8-3 against Ramsfjell. Harstad went on to lose 6-2 against Sweden's Fredrik Nyman. Harstad responded with a 9-2 win over Konrad Stych (Warsaw, POL) in their final qualifying round match.

Harstad earned 12.750 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Sun City Cup, moving up 16 spots the World Ranking Standings into 67th place overall with 44.125 total points. Harstad ranks 67th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 44.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	19	18	0	0.514	2-2	1-3	1-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	257	192	187	7.47	7.28	0.19	4.63	4.32	1.61	1.68	1.05

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	123	136	44	15	7-0	3-2	28-9	1.11	0.36	0.35	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	134	56	143	12	1-2	4-13	3-30	0.42	1.07	0.44	0.31

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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