CHAMPION: Perret/Rios Wins 2020 SWISSCURLING Mixed Doubles Championship

Jenny Perret/Martin Rios (Glarus, SUI) won 7-5 over Melanie Barbezat/Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) in the Final of the SWISSCURLING Mixed Doubles Championship, held February 26 - March 1, 2020 in Aarau, Switzerland. To advance to the championship game, Perret/Rios won 8-7 over Alina Paetz/Sven Michel (Aarau, SUI) in the semifinals of the 2020 SWISSCURLING Mixed Doubles Championship in Aarau, Switzerland; and won 8-5 over Lisa Gisler/Romano Meier (Baden, SUI) in the quarterfinals. of the 2020 SWISSCURLING Mixed Doubles Championship in Aarau, Switzerland;

Perret/Rios finished 5-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Perret/Rios defeated Irene Schori/Lucien Lottenbach (Luzern, SUI) 10-3, then won 6-5 against Roxanne HÃ©ritier/Valentin Tanner (Geneve, SUI) and 6-4 against Elena Stern/Benoit Schwarz (Geneve, SUI). Perret/Rios won 9-5 against Michele Jaeggi/Marc Pfister (Bern, SUI), then won 8-3 against Stefanie Berset/Simon Gloor (Bern, SUI). Perret/Rios went on to lose 10-9 against Briar Huerlimann/Yannick Schwaller (Solothun, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the SWISSCURLING Mixed Doubles Championship Championship title, Perret/Rios earned 47.930 world rankings points, remaining in 668th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 27.492 after improving upon their best so far this season. Perret/Rios ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 209.400 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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