Hess8-3 at Swiss Curling League

Fourth
Christian
Haller

SKIP
Yves
Hess

Second
Rainer
Kobler

Lead
Fabian
Schmid

Yves Hess (Zug, SUI) finished 8-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hess defeated Roman Ruch (Uzwil, SUI) 6-5, then went on to lose 8-6 against Bjorn Jungen (Adelboden, SUI). Hess responded with a 9-5 win over Simon Biedermann (Gstaad, SUI). Hess won 8-5 against Kevin Wunderlin (Biel, SUI), then won 6-3 against Kim-Lloyd Sciboz (Lausanne, SUI). Hess went on to lose 10-8 against Marc Suter (Aarau, SUI). Hess responded with a 10-5 win over Felix Attinger (Dubendorf, SUI). Hess won 9-7 against Reto Keller (Bern, SUI). Hess went on to lose 7-3 against Yannick Schwaller (Berne, SUI). Hess responded with a 8-4 win over Christian Bangerter (Bern, SUI). Hess won 7-3 against Simon Ellenberger (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Hess earned 8.181 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Swiss Curling League, moving up 24 spots the World Ranking Standings into 143rd place overall with 27.874 total points. Hess ranks 173rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.350 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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