Rantamaki10-7 at Finnish Men's Championship

SKIP
Tomi
Rantamaki

Third
Jere
Sullanmaa

Second
Pekka
Peura

Lead
Jermu
Poellaenen

Tomi Rantamaki (Hyvinkaa, FIN) finished 10-7 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Rantamaki lost 6-3 to Jani Sullanmaa (Hyvinkaa, FIN), then responded with a 8-6 win over Aku Kauste (Helsinki, FIN). Rantamaki went on to lose 7-5 against Kalle Kiiskinen (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Rantamaki responded with a 10-4 win over Jari Saarelainen (Helsinki, FIN). Rantamaki went on to lose 9-4 against Markku Uusipaavalniemi (Helsinki, FIN). Rantamaki responded with a 9-6 win over Toni Anttila (Mariehamn, FIN). Rantamaki won 12-4 against Tomi Kokkola (Savitaipale, FIN), then won 9-1 against Sullanmaa. Rantamaki went on to lose 8-7 against Kauste. Rantamaki responded with a 10-6 win over Kiiskinen. Rantamaki won 14-4 against Saarelainen. Rantamaki went on to lose 8-7 against Uusipaavalniemi. Rantamaki lost 9-7 to Anttila. Rantamaki lost 9-8 to Kokkola where Rantamaki responded with a 14-1 win over Saarelainen. Rantamaki won 8-2 against Kokkola, then won 8-4 against Uusipaavalniemi in their final qualifying round match.

Rantamaki earned 0.825 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 8 spots the World Ranking Standings into 102nd place overall with 14.757 total points. Rantamaki ranks 116th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 6.990 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

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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