Epping2-3 at 2022 KIOTI Tractor Champions Cup

SKIP
John
Epping

Third
Ryan
Fry

Second
Mathew
Camm

Lead
Brent
Laing

John Epping (Toronto, ON) finished 2-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Epping lost 7-4 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL), droppimg another game, 7-3 to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) where Epping responded with a 6-3 win over Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB). Epping went on to lose 6-2 against Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, ON). Epping responded with a 5-4 win over Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Epping earned 7.435 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 18th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 2.879 after improving upon their best so far this season. Epping ranks 18th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 156.966 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	29	31	0	0.483	13-4	2-13	1-5	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	434	294	290	6.77	6.68	0.09	4.22	4.29	1.61	1.56	1.50

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	211	235	68	23	7-1	14-5	47-6	1.11	0.32	0.36	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	223	59	222	42	1-3	3-10	6-54	0.26	1.00	0.51	0.20

2022: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2021: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. , Alan Hannah
Stirling, SCO
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2017: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2016: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Braeden Moskowy, Derek Samagalski, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, MB

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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