Virtue Runner-Up at 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic

SKIP
Brock
Virtue

Third
Braeden
Moskowy

Second
Chris
Schille

Lead
DJ
Kidby

Brock Virtue (Regina, SK) lost 6-5 to Kevin Martin (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, held October 11 - 14, 2013 at the Crestwood Curling Club in Edmonton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Virtue won 5-3 over Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK) in the semifinals of the 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and won 6-2 over Brent Pierce (New Westminster, BC) in the quarterfinals.

Virtue finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Virtue defeated Dejia Zou (Harbin, CHN) 6-5, then won 6-3 against Rob Fowler (Brandon, MB) and 7-5 against Josh Heidt (Kerrobert, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, Virtue take home 12.075 world rankings points along with the $9,000CDN prize, moving up 13 spots the World Ranking Standings into 39th place overall with 34.330 total points. Virtue ranks 37th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.075 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	35	24	0	0.593	18-6	15-17	11-9	6-2	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	450	322	296	7.16	6.58	0.58	4.42	4.18	1.62	1.57	1.40

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	217	245	58	31	5-1	16-5	52-5	1.13	0.27	0.39	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	233	77	238	32	2-6	0-11	17-49	0.33	1.02	0.55	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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