Retornaz5-1 at 2021 Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge

SKIP
Joel
Retornaz

Third
Amos
Mosaner

Second
Sebastiano
Arman

Lead
Simone
Gonin

Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA) finished 5-1 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Retornaz defeated Benny Kapp (Fuessen, GER) 8-1, then won 8-7 against James Craik (Stirling, SCO) and 6-3 against Daniel Magnusson (Karlstad, SWE) to advance to a A-Qualifier game where they lost 7-0 against Yves Stocker (Glarus, SUI). Retornaz responded with a 7-1 win over Luca Rizzolli (Trentino, ITA) to advance to the B-Qualifier where they 4-1 against Magnusson to advance to the playoff round. in their final qualifying round match.

Retornaz earned 19.247 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 26th place overall with 119.495 total points. Retornaz ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 54.322 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

2023: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Forfar, SCO
2022: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2021: Yves Stocker
Philipp Hoesli, Yves Stocker, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Simone Gonin
Pinerolo, ITA
2018: Amos Mosaner
Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Andrea Pilzer, Daniele Ferrazza
Trentino, ITA

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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