Pierce Reaches 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic Quarters

Fourth
Sean
Geall

SKIP
Brent
Pierce

Second
Sebastien
Robillard

Lead
Mark
Olson

Brent Pierce (New Westminster, BC) qualified for the 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-2 against Brock Virtue (Regina, SK).

Pierce finished 4-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Pierce defeated Fengchun Wang (Harbin, CHN) 8-4, then won 8-1 against Ted Appelman (Edmonton, AB). Pierce went on to lose 8-2 against Kevin Martin (Edmonton, AB). Pierce lost 7-4 to William Lyburn (Winnipeg, MB) where Pierce responded with a 6-2 win over Dean Ross (Edmonton, AB). Pierce won 4-3 against Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Pierce earned 5.175 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 36th place overall with 38.064 total points. Pierce ranks 44th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.350 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	21	14	0	0.600	6-1	4-7	4-4	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	267	195	172	7.30	6.44	0.86	4.38	4.23	1.67	1.52	1.39

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	125	152	36	12	1-0	17-1	31-5	1.22	0.29	0.43	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	142	43	136	25	1-3	1-6	5-30	0.30	0.96	0.54	0.23

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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