Koe8-3 at 2014 World Curling Championship

SKIP
Kevin
Koe

Third
Pat
Simmons

Second
Carter
Rycroft

Lead
Nolan
Thiessen

Kevin Koe (Edmonton, CAN) finished 8-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Koe defeated Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN) 6-3, then went on to lose 9-6 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Koe responded with a 9-6 win over Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN). Koe won 9-1 against Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS), then won 10-6 against Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE) and 7-4 against Pete Fenson (Bemidji, USA). Koe went on to lose 9-5 against Thomas Ulsrud (Snaroen, NOR). Koe responded with a 8-4 win over Peter de Cruz (Geneve, SUI). Koe went on to lose 6-2 against Oskar Eriksson (Lit, SWE). Koe responded with a 11-5 win over Johnny Jahr (Hamburg, GER). Koe won 7-5 against Ewan MacDonald (Perth, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

Koe earned 20.000 world rankings points for their Top 4 finish in the World Curling Championship, remaining in 4th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 4.4 after improving upon their best so far this season. Koe ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 206.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	72	32	0	0.692	38-14	27-17	13-8	5-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	839	654	495	7.80	5.90	1.90	4.72	3.98	1.65	1.48	1.30

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	414	512	77	52	10-1	35-1	114-7	1.24	0.19	0.44	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	425	142	418	57	5-5	3-25	21-84	0.33	0.98	0.58	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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