Gulbis5-2 at 2019 Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships

SKIP
Ritvars
Gulbis

Third
Raivis
Busmanis

Second
Aivars
Avotins

Lead
Anrijs Mikuss
Briezkalns

Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT) finished 5-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gulbis lost 7-2 to David Sik (Prague, CZE), then responded with a 10-3 win over Zsolt Kiss (Budapest, HUN). Gulbis won 8-4 against Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR), then won 8-5 against Sergio Vez (Vitoria-Gasteiz, ESP). Gulbis went on to lose 9-4 against Harri Lill (Tallinn, EST). Gulbis responded with a 6-5 win over Eddy Mercier (Lyon, FRA). Gulbis won 11-8 against Pavol Pitonak (Bratislava, SVK) in their final qualifying round match.

Gulbis earned 11.970 world rankings points for their Top 4 finish in the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships, moving up 81 spots the World Ranking Standings into 172nd place overall with 19.826 total points. Gulbis ranks 131st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 17.604 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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