Stocker4-2 at Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge

SKIP
Yves
Stocker

Third
Kim
Schwaller

Second
Felix
Eberhard

Lead
Tom
Winkelhausen

Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI) finished 4-2 in the 23-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Stocker defeated Matthaus Hofer (Kitzbuehel, AUT) 14-0, then won 7-5 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Stocker went on to lose 8-5 against James Craik (Forfar, SCO). Stocker responded with a 6-5 win over Marco Hoesli (Glarus, SUI). Stocker went on to lose 7-4 against Benny Kapp (Fuessen, GER). Stocker responded with a 8-4 win over Switzerland's Andrin Schnider in their final qualifying round match.

Stocker earned 12.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge. Stocker move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 7.5 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 35th overall with 111.180 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Stocker ranks 28th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 57.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	57	26	0	0.687	8-3	7-7	2-3	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	567	510	361	8.99	6.37	2.63	5.01	4.16	1.80	1.53	0.83

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	281	362	77	26	13-1	24-3	78-10	1.29	0.27	0.45	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	286	148	284	21	5-4	13-18	17-57	0.52	0.99	0.56	0.30

2023: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Forfar, SCO
2022: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2021: Yves Stocker
Philipp Hoesli, Yves Stocker, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Simone Gonin
Pinerolo, ITA
2018: Amos Mosaner
Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Andrea Pilzer, Daniele Ferrazza
Trentino, ITA

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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