CHAMPION: Retchless Wins 2020 Baltic Super League

SKIP
Rob
Retchless

Third
Greg
Dunn

Second
Jonathan
Havercroft

Lead
James
Burman

Rob Retchless (Tunbridge Wells, ENG) won 10-4 over Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) in the Final of the Baltic Super League, held January 10 - 12, 2020 at the Riga Curling Hall in Riga, Latvia. To advance to the championship game, Retchless won 8-5 over Kriss Vonda (Riga, LAT) in the semifinals

Retchless finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Retchless defeated Truksans 9-4, then won 10-9 against Janis Rudzitis (Riga, LAT) and 7-5 against Oleg Krasikov (Saint Petersburg, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Baltic Super League Championship title, Retchless earned 7.594 world rankings points. Retchless move up 84 spots after posting a net gain of 6.541 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 192nd overall with 13.493 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Retchless ranks 189th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 11.387 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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