Gosgens Runner-Up at 2023 Sun City Cup

SKIP
Wouter
Gosgens

Third
Jaap
van Dorp

Second
Laurens
Hoekman

Lead
Tobias
van den Hurk

Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) lost 5-2 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in the Final of the Sun City Cup, held February 23 - 26, 2023 in Karlstad, Sweden. To advance to the championship game, Gosgens won 7-2 over Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR) in the semifinals of the 2023 Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden; and won 7-6 over Andreas Harstad (Oppdal, NOR) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden;

Gosgens finished 5-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gosgens defeated Anders Westerberg (Sundbyberg, SWE) 8-5, then won 5-4 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Lillehammer, NOR) and 6-3 against Fredrik Nyman (Solleftea, SWE). Gosgens won 10-5 against Axel Landelius (MjÃ¶lby, SWE), then won 5-2 against Daniel Magnusson (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Sun City Cup, Gosgens take home 22.000 world rankings points along with the $1,565CDN prize. Gosgens move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 7.125 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 14th overall with 180.182 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Gosgens ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 169.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	55	25	0	0.688	10-5	4-2	4-1	2-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	589	512	339	8.69	5.76	2.94	4.97	4.02	1.75	1.43	1.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	282	362	72	24	14-0	27-2	63-11	1.28	0.26	0.40	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	307	150	267	35	5-5	9-10	24-52	0.49	0.87	0.63	0.30

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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