CHAMPION: Kleiter Wins 2022 SGI Canada Best of the West

SKIP
Rylan
Kleiter

Third
Joshua
Mattern

Second
Trevor
Johnson

Lead
Matthieu
Taillon

Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK) won 9-8 over Colton Lott (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the SGI Canada Best of the West, held April 22 - 24, 2022 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. To advance to the championship game, Kleiter won 5-3 over Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) in the semifinals

Kleiter finished 3-0 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kleiter defeated Lott 7-4, then won 6-5 against Jeremy Harty (Calgary, AB) and 7-4 against Matthew McCrady (New Westminster, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the SGI Canada Best of the West Championship title, Kleiter earned 0.000 world rankings points along with the $10,000CDN first prize cheque. For week 39 of the event schedule, Kleiter did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 69th to 70th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 54.245 total points. Kleiter ranks 70th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 54.245 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	27	20	0	0.574	4-0	3-3	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	345	260	234	7.54	6.78	0.75	4.67	4.41	1.61	1.54	0.93

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	163	199	48	15	2-0	23-0	34-12	1.22	0.29	0.40	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	182	61	186	17	0-3	0-15	12-31	0.34	1.02	0.58	0.27

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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