Kauste3-1 at 2015 European Masters

SKIP
Aku
Kauste

Third
Pauli
Jaamies

Second
Leo
Makela

Lead
Janne
Pitko

Aku Kauste (Helsinki, FIN) finished 3-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kauste defeated Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI) 6-2, then went on to lose 5-2 against Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI). Kauste responded with a 7-3 win over Sweden's Gustav Eskilsson. Kauste won 6-5 against David Murdoch (Stirling, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

Kauste earned 9.555 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the European Masters, moving up 6 spots the World Ranking Standings into 36th place overall with 53.162 total points. Kauste ranks 25th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 47.280 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2017: Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Kyle Waddell, Cameron Smith
Stirling, SCO
2016: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2015: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Kristian Lindstroem, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2014: Pascal Hess
Pascal Hess, Florian Meister, Meico Oehninger, Stefan Meienberg
Zug, SUI
2013: Oskar Eriksson
Kristian Lindstroem, Oskar Eriksson, Markus Eriksson, Christoffer Sundgren
, SWE
2012: Thomas Ulsrud
Thomas Ulsrud, Torger Nergaard, Christoffer Svae, Haavard Vad Petersson
Oslo, NOR

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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