CHAMPION: Hess Wins 2013 Whites Drug Store Classic

SKIP
Pascal
Hess

Third
Florian
Meister

Second
Meico
Oehninger

Lead
Stefan
Meienberg

Pascal Hess (Zug, SUI) won 2-1 over Jason Jacobson (Saskatoon, SK) in the Final of the Whites Drug Store Classic, held November 8 - 11, 2013 at the Swan River Curling Club in Swan River, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Hess won 6-1 over Bernhard Werthemann (Berne, SUI) in the semifinals of the 2013 Whites Drug Store Classic in Swan River, Manitoba, Canada; and won 6-3 over Brent Scales (Swan River, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2013 Whites Drug Store Classic in Swan River, Manitoba, Canada;

Hess finished 4-1 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hess lost 5-2 to Kevin Marsh (Saskatoon, SK), then responded with a 6-5 win over Joel Jordison (Regina, SK). Hess won 5-1 against Jeff Hartung (Langenburg, SK), then won 4-1 against Bruce Korte (Saskatoon, SK) and 5-4 against Peter de Cruz (Geneva, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Whites Drug Store Classic Championship title, Hess earned 12.750 world rankings points along with the $11,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 32nd place overall with 48.660 total points. Hess ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 35.825 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	43	31	0	0.581	27-10	12-15	10-5	2-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	564	364	329	6.45	5.83	0.62	4.11	4.02	1.57	1.45	1.86

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	291	285	68	60	4-0	19-2	59-8	0.98	0.23	0.36	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	273	79	261	45	1-2	5-15	9-54	0.29	0.96	0.58	0.21

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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