Bertsch Runner-Up at 2021 Ladies Alberta Open

SKIP
Lindsay
Bertsch

Third
Nicole
Mattson

Second
Valerie
Ekelund

Lead
Hope
Sunley

Lindsay Bertsch (Calgary, AB) lost 5-3 to Eunji Gim (Uijeongbu, KOR) in the Final of the Ladies Alberta Open, held November 12 - 14, 2021 at the Okotoks Curling Club in Okotoks, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Bertsch won 6-5 over Kayla Skrlik (Calgary, AB) in the semifinals of the 2021 Ladies Alberta Open in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada;

Bertsch finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bertsch defeated Kellie Stiksma (Edmoton, AB) 6-4, then won 5-4 against Jessica Wytrychowski (Airdrie, AB). Bertsch went on to lose 7-3 against Skrlik in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Ladies Alberta Open, Bertsch take home 15.094 world rankings points along with the $1,600CDN prize, moving up 6 spots the World Ranking Standings into 51st place overall with 65.996 total points. Bertsch ranks 44th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 37.377 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	16	17	0	0.485	0-3	0-2	0-1	1-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	252	169	177	6.71	7.02	-0.32	4.56	4.44	1.47	1.58	0.99

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	126	118	55	10	1-1	4-3	29-8	0.94	0.44	0.29	0.30

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	126	51	122	15	1-3	3-9	5-19	0.40	0.97	0.58	0.29

2023: Kayla Skrlik
Kayla Skrlik, Brittany Tran, Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Ashton Skrlik
Calgary, AB
2022: Kayla Skrlik
Kayla Skrlik, Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Brittany Tran, Ashton Skrlik
Calgary, AB
2021: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Ye ji Seol, Su ji Kim, Ye eun Seol, Yubin Park, Dong ho Shin
Uijeongbu, KOR

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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