Karagoz5-2 at 2018 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

SKIP
Ugurcan
Karagoz

Third
Bilal Omer
Cakir

Second
Oguzhan
Karakurt

Lead
Muhammed Zeki
Ucan

Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR) finished 5-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Karagoz defeated Denmark's Joel Ostrowski 6-4, then went on to lose 9-8 against Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE). Karagoz lost 9-6 to Borys Jasiecki (Sopot, POL) where Karagoz responded with a 8-7 win over Theo Ducroz (Chamonix, FRA). Karagoz won 5-4 against Tadas Vyskupaitis (Vilnius, LTU), then won 10-4 against Slovenia's Stefan Sever and 10-4 against James Pougher (Hawarden, WAL) in their final qualifying round match.

The berth into the first round of the Le Gruyere European Curling Championships playoffs earned Karagoz 8.550 world rankings points, moving up 173 spots the World Ranking Standings into 247th place overall with 10.047 total points. Karagoz ranks 171st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.550 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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