Kakela2-3 at 2019 Carberry King Spud Classic

SKIP
Kevin
Kakela

Third
Kyle
Kakela

Second
Timothy
Hodek

Lead
John Paul
Munich

Kevin Kakela (Rolla, ND) finished 2-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kakela lost 9-5 to Jeff Stewart (Gladstone, MB), then responded with a 1-0 win over Kelly Marnoch (Carberry, MB). Kakela won 1-0 against Cale Dunbar (Brandon, MB) to advance to a B-Qualifier game where they lost 1-0 against Graham McFarlane (Winnipeg, MB) to drop into a C-Qualifier game where they lost 8-3 to Riley Smith (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

Kakela earned 1.520 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 273rd place overall with 7.470 total points. Kakela ranks 246th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.490 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

2018: Corey Chambers
Corey Chambers, Julien Leduc, Devon Wiebe, Stuart Shiells
Winnipeg, MB
2017: Kelly Marnoch
Bart Witherspoon, Kelly Marnoch, Branden Jorgensen, Chris Cameron
Carberry, MB
2008: Kelly Skinner
Bart Witherspoon, Kelly Marnoch, Branden Jorgensen, Chris Cameron
Hamiota, 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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