Walker/Muyres Runner-Up at 2023 MadTown DoubleDown Presented by Revive Restoration

Laura Walker/Kirk Muyres (Edmonton, AB) lost 7-2 to Chiaki Matsumura/Yasumasa Tanida (Nagano/Hokkaido, JPN) in the Final of the MadTown DoubleDown Presented by Revive Restoration, held January 6 - 8, 2023 at the Madison Curling Club in McFarland, United States. To advance to the championship game, Walker/Muyres won 7-3 over Aileen Geving/John Shuster (Duluth, MN) in the semifinals of the 2023 MadTown DoubleDown Presented by Revive Restoration in McFarland, Wisconsin, United States; and won 9-3 over Vicky Persinger/Christopher Plys (Fairbanks, AK) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 MadTown DoubleDown Presented by Revive Restoration in McFarland, Wisconsin, United States;

Walker/Muyres finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Walker/Muyres defeated Lorna Cagann/Matthew Sherry (Madison, WI) 10-3, then won 8-1 against Kim Rhyme/Jason Smith (Minneapolis, MN) and 8-2 against Kaye Bassett/Colin Hufman (Fairbanks, AK) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the MadTown DoubleDown Presented by Revive Restoration, Walker/Muyres take home 22.000 world rankings points along with the $6,435CDN prize, remaining in 564th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 15.958 after improving upon their best so far this season. Walker/Muyres ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 137.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	35	13	0	0.729	3-2	6-1	1-1	0-1	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	351	349	239	9.94	6.81	3.13	5.90	4.10	1.69	1.66	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	158	221	52	0	9-0	18-1	37-11	1.40	0.33	0.41	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	193	128	187	0	3-6	5-17	20-29	0.66	0.97	0.50	0.46

2024: Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson, Andrew Stopera , Mark Lazar
Minneapolis, MN
2023: Chiaki Matsumura
Chiaki Matsumura, Yasumasa Tanida
Nagano/Hokkaido, JPN
2019: Anna Hasselborg
Anna Hasselborg, Oskar Eriksson , Mathias Hasselborg
Sundbyberg, SWE
2018: Monica Walker
Monica Walker, Alex Leichter
Boston, MA

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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