Sturmay Reaches 2022 HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2 Quarters

SKIP
Karsten
Sturmay

Third
Kyle
Doering

Second
Kurtis
Goller

Lead
Glenn
Venance

Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) qualified for the 2022 HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2 playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 8-3 against Felix Asselin (Montreal, QC).

Sturmay finished 2-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sturmay defeated Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB) 5-2, then went on to lose 6-2 against Asselin. Sturmay responded with a 6-3 win over Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB). Sturmay went on to lose 7-2 against Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Sturmay earned 15.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2. For week 12 of the event schedule, Sturmay did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 20th to 21st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 142.245 total points. Sturmay ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 66.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	60	28	0	0.682	9-2	10-9	3-3	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	624	509	380	8.16	6.09	2.07	4.89	3.96	1.67	1.54	1.15

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	301	371	76	38	9-1	27-2	79-13	1.23	0.25	0.44	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	323	138	304	34	1-8	6-20	24-49	0.43	0.94	0.60	0.30

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2019: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Thomas Howell, Mark Fenner, Alex Fenson, Joe Polo, Shawn Rojeski
Chaska, USA
2018: Kirk Muyres
Kirk Muyres, Kevin Marsh, Daniel Marsh, Dallan Muyres
Saskatoon, SK
2017: Jason Gunnlaugson
Jason Gunnlaugson, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: Greg Balsdon
Greg Balsdon, Jonathan Beuk, David Staples, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON
2015: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Ryan Kuhn, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC

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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