Morris Reaches 2019 Humpty's Champions Cup Quarters

SKIP
John
Morris

Third
Christopher
Plys

Second
Matt
Hamilton

Lead
John
Landsteiner

John Morris (Duluth, USA) qualified for the 2019 Humpty's Champions Cup playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 8-4 against Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO). of the 2019 Humpty's Champions Cup in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan;

Morris finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morris defeated Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN) 7-2, then won 7-6 against Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT) and 8-4 against Ross Paterson (Glasgow, SCO). Morris went on to lose 8-7 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Morris earned 31.213 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Humpty's Champions Cup, remaining in 12th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 15.519 after improving upon their best so far this season. Morris ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 281.465 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

2022: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2021: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. , Alan Hannah
Stirling, SCO
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2017: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2016: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Braeden Moskowy, Derek Samagalski, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, MB

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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