Retornaz5-7 at 2018 World Mens Curling Championship

Fourth
Amos
Mosaner

SKIP
Joel
Retornaz

Second
Andrea
Pilzer

Lead
Daniele
Ferrazza

Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) finished 5-7 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Retornaz lost 10-4 to Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR), droppimg another game, 6-4 to Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO) where Retornaz responded with a 9-6 win over Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS). Retornaz went on to lose 8-7 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Retornaz lost 6-5 to Marc Pfister (Adelboden, SUI) where Retornaz responded with a 11-5 win over De Jia Zou (Harbin, CHN). Retornaz went on to lose 9-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Retornaz responded with a 10-6 win over Masaki Iwai (Hokkaido, JPN). Retornaz went on to lose 6-5 against Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR). Retornaz lost 5-3 to Rich Ruohonen (Seattle, USA) where Retornaz responded with a 11-4 win over Alexander Baumann (Baden-Baden, GER). Retornaz won 6-5 against Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) in their final qualifying round match.

Retornaz earned 12.080 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Retornaz move up 5 spots after posting a net gain of 10.56 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 62nd overall with 119.739 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Retornaz ranks 43rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 94.555 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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