Galkina Runner-Up at 2018 Russian Curling Cup

SKIP
Ekaterina
Galkina

Third
Ekaterina
Antonova

Second
Anna
Antonyuk

Lead
Anastasia
Skultan

Ekaterina Galkina (Moscow, RUS) lost 6-3 to Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS) in the Final of the Russian Curling Cup, held December 21 - 25, 2018 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. To advance to the championship game, Galkina won 6-4 over Elizaveta Trukhina (Irkutsk, RUS) in the semifinals of the 2018 Russian Curling Cup in Krasnoyarsk, Russia;

Galkina finished 7-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Galkina defeated Diana Margarian (Saint Petersburg, RUS) 8-5, then won 11-2 against Anastasia Sushkova (Tatarstan, RUS) and 7-6 against Olga Kotelnikova (Moscow, RUS). Galkina won 6-4 against Ekaterina Kungurova (Novosibirsk, RUS), then won 7-4 against Evgenia Mamykina (Moscow, RUS) and 5-3 against Ekaterina Telnova (Moscow, RUS). Galkina won 5-4 against Ksenia Novikova (Moscow, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Russian Curling Cup, Galkina take home 13.939 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN prize. For week 20 of the event schedule, Galkina did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Galkina ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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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