Keiser4-3 at 2022 RBC Dominion Securities Western Showdown

Fourth
Selina
Witschonke

Third
Elena
Mathis

SKIP
Raphaela
Keiser

Lead
Marina
Loertscher

Raphaela Keiser (St. Moritz, SUI) finished 4-3 in the 28-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Keiser defeated Madison Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK) 9-1, then won 9-3 against Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) and 6-0 against Isabella Wrana (Sundbyberg , SWE) to advance to a A-Qualifier game where they lost 5-4 against Clancy Grandy (Vancouver, BC). Keiser lost 6-4 to Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) where Keiser responded with a 7-4 win over Rhonda Varnes (Portage la Prairie, MB) to advance to a C-Qualifier game where they lost 7-3 against Stefania Constantini (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

Keiser earned 10.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 11 of the event schedule, Keiser did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 10th place on the World Ranking Standings with 174.678 total points. Keiser ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 92.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	39	33	0	0.542	5-4	9-8	3-3	1-0	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	537	381	345	7.10	6.42	0.67	4.54	4.36	1.56	1.47	1.10

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	259	270	77	27	5-2	18-1	45-10	1.04	0.30	0.29	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	278	111	268	32	3-4	6-13	18-54	0.40	0.96	0.59	0.26

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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