CHAMPION: Koe Wins 2021 IG Wealth Management Western Showdown

SKIP
Kevin
Koe

Third
John
Morris

Second
B.J.
Neufeld

Lead
Ben
Hebert

Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) won 8-1 over Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT) in the Final of the IG Wealth Management Western Showdown, held October 8 - 11, 2021 at the Swift Current Curling Club in Swift Current, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Koe won 5-3 over Pat Simmons (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2021 IG Wealth Management Western Showdown in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada; and won 6-5 over Kody Hartung (Saskatoon, SK) in the quarterfinals. of the 2021 IG Wealth Management Western Showdown in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Koe finished 5-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Koe defeated Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK) 7-5, then went on to lose 8-7 against Tyler Tardi (Surrey, BC). Koe responded with a 8-6 win over Jason Jacobson (Saskatoon, SK). Koe went on to lose 4-3 against Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK). Koe responded with a 5-3 win over Shaun Meachem (Swift Current, SK). Koe won 6-2 against Soo-Hyuk Kim (Gyeongbuk, KOR), then won 6-4 against Jacobson in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the IG Wealth Management Western Showdown Championship title, Koe earned 61.758 world rankings points along with the $14,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 5th place overall with 244.458 total points. Koe ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 105.653 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	55	22	0	0.714	16-5	7-7	5-6	4-1	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	591	494	341	8.36	5.77	2.59	4.67	4.04	1.79	1.43	1.29

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	295	389	59	42	10-0	29-4	95-4	1.32	0.20	0.53	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	296	105	282	34	2-4	8-10	13-57	0.35	0.95	0.63	0.24

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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