Laycock2-3 at 2022 IG Wealth Management Western Showdown

SKIP
Steve
Laycock

Third
Shaun
Meachem

Second
Chris
Haichert

Lead
Brayden
Stewart

Steve Laycock (Swift Current, SK) finished 2-3 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Laycock defeated Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) 8-3, then went on to lose 6-5 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Laycock responded with a 9-3 win over Daymond Bernath (Saskatoon, SK). Laycock went on to lose 7-2 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). Laycock lost 10-5 to Yeongseok Jeong (Gangwon, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

Laycock earned 3.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 13 of the event schedule, Laycock did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 55th to 58th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 65.227 total points. Laycock ranks 31st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 44.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	22	12	0	0.647	7-3	0-0	1-0	2-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	249	217	162	8.71	6.51	2.21	5.02	3.98	1.74	1.64	1.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	124	163	33	11	6-1	10-0	36-5	1.31	0.27	0.46	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	125	54	129	14	0-6	5-4	7-27	0.43	1.03	0.50	0.30

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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