Gauthier Reaches 2023 SGI Canada Best of the West Quarters

SKIP
Jacques
Gauthier

Third
Sterling
Middleton

Second
Jason
Ginter

Lead
Alex
Horvath

Jacques Gauthier (Victoria, BC) qualified for the 2023 SGI Canada Best of the West playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 8-5 against Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB). of the 2023 SGI Canada Best of the West in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Gauthier finished 2-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gauthier lost 8-4 to Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK), droppimg another game, 8-6 to Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) where Gauthier responded with a 10-2 win over Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB). Gauthier won 6-1 against Jacob Libbus (Okotoks, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Gauthier earned 4.500 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the SGI Canada Best of the West. For week 38 of the event schedule, Gauthier did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 34th place on the World Ranking Standings with 113.938 total points. Gauthier ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 113.938 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	40	30	0	0.571	7-3	7-7	1-4	1-0	1-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	539	409	351	7.59	6.51	1.08	4.68	4.14	1.62	1.57	1.19

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	252	292	69	29	3-0	27-5	55-9	1.16	0.27	0.38	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	287	117	282	35	3-3	6-21	17-58	0.41	0.98	0.53	0.28

2024: Ryan Wiebe
Ryan Wiebe, Ty Dilello, Sean Flatt, Adam Flatt
Winnipeg, MB
2023: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Kyle Doering, Glenn Venance, Kurtis Goller
Edmonton, AB
2022: Rylan Kleiter
Rylan Kleiter, Joshua Mattern, Trevor Johnson, Matthieu Taillon, Steve Laycock
Saskatoon, SK

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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