Sturmay Reaches 2021 IG Wealth Management Western Showdown Quarters

SKIP
Karsten
Sturmay

Third
Tristan
Steinke

Second
Chris
Kennedy

Lead
Glenn
Venance

Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) qualified for the 2021 IG Wealth Management Western Showdown playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-2 against Colton Flasch (Saskatoon, SK). of the 2021 IG Wealth Management Western Showdown in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Sturmay finished 3-1 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sturmay defeated Kelly Knapp (Regina, SK) 6-5, then won 8-4 against Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB). Sturmay went on to lose 5-4 against Kody Hartung (Saskatoon, SK). Sturmay responded with a 6-2 win over Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

Sturmay earned 24.703 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the IG Wealth Management Western Showdown. Sturmay move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 21.179 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 23rd overall with 107.259 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sturmay ranks 18th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 42.261 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	44	41	0	0.518	12-7	6-10	3-4	0-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	622	434	436	6.98	7.01	-0.03	4.55	4.18	1.53	1.68	1.27

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	320	328	88	54	2-3	23-3	69-13	1.03	0.28	0.35	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	302	106	348	25	1-10	2-26	19-66	0.35	1.15	0.49	0.26

2023: Yannick Schwaller
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Yannick Schwaller, Sven Michel, Pablo Lachat
Geneve, SUI
2022: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2021: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, John Morris, B.J. Neufeld, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

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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