Retornaz7-5 at 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
Joel
Retornaz

Third
Amos
Mosaner

Second
Sebastiano
Arman

Lead
Simone
Gonin

Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) finished 7-5 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Retornaz lost 6-4 to Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN), then responded with a 9-3 win over Marc Muskatewitz (Baden Baden, GER). Retornaz went on to lose 9-5 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, CAN). Retornaz responded with a 8-2 win over Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN). Retornaz won 10-4 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Oslo, NOR), then won 5-3 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). Retornaz went on to lose 8-3 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Retornaz responded with a 9-4 win over SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR). Retornaz won 6-5 against Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI), then won 6-4 against Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Retornaz went on to lose 7-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Retornaz lost 9-5 to Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

Retornaz earned 30.128 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 15 spots the World Ranking Standings into 31st place overall with 121.794 total points. Retornaz ranks 31st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 121.794 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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