Brunner Runner-Up at 2023 St. Galler Elite Challenge

SKIP
Michael
Brunner

Third
Romano
Keller-Meier

Second
Anthony
Petoud

Lead
Marcel
Kaeufeler

Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) lost 5-3 to Cameron Bryce (Stirling, SCO) in the Final of the St. Galler Elite Challenge, held January 20 - 23, 2023 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. To advance to the championship game, Brunner won 6-3 over Benny Kapp (Fuessen/Oberstdorf , GER) in the semifinals of the 2023 St. Galler Elite Challenge in St. Gallen, Switzerland; and won 9-2 over Sixten Totzek (Baden Baden, GER) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 St. Galler Elite Challenge in St. Gallen, Switzerland;

Brunner finished 3-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brunner defeated Konrad Stych (Warsaw, POL) 8-3, then won 8-1 against Andrin Schnider (Schaffhausen, SUI) and 7-4 against Sergio Vez (San Sebastian, ESP) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the St. Galler Elite Challenge, Brunner take home 19.250 world rankings points along with the $3,660CDN prize. Brunner move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of 14.75 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 23rd overall with 133.247 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Brunner ranks 36th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 82.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	35	43	0	0.449	10-9	11-13	4-4	1-0	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	577	395	416	6.85	7.21	-0.36	4.25	4.51	1.61	1.60	1.25

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	292	315	96	38	3-1	24-6	67-17	1.08	0.33	0.37	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	285	80	320	34	0-7	7-15	11-73	0.28	1.12	0.52	0.19

2024: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Border, SCO
2023: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2022: Marco Hoesli
Marco Hoesli, Philipp Hoesli, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI

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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