CHAMPION: Craik Wins 2023 World University Games: Lake Placid 2023

SKIP
James
Craik

Third
Mark
Watt

Second
Angus
Bryce

Lead
Blair
Haswell

James Craik (Stirling, GBR) won 5-1 over Daniel Casper (Chaska, USA) in the Final of the World University Games: Lake Placid 2023, held January 13 - 21, 2023 in Lake Placid, New York. To advance to the championship game, Craik won 6-4 over Owen Purcell (Halifax, CAN) in the semifinals

Craik are currently 7-1 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Craik defeated Vitor De Melo (Sao Paolo, BRA) 7-3, then won 7-6 against David Jakl (Prague, CZE) and 10-1 against Switzerland's Jan Iseli. Craik won 8-7 against Mathias Braenden (Oppdal, NOR). Craik went on to lose 6-4 against Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN). Craik responded with a 7-2 win over Casper. Craik won 5-2 against Johan Nygren (Umea, SWE), then won 8-2 against Purcell. In their opening game, Craik plays.

For winning the World University Games: Lake Placid 2023 Championship title, Craik earned 18.750 world rankings points. Craik move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 9.75 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 28th overall with 121.262 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Craik ranks 23rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 106.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	45	26	0	0.634	6-5	5-4	2-2	1-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	519	418	326	8.05	6.28	1.77	4.68	4.22	1.72	1.49	1.10

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	262	307	85	31	12-1	18-2	61-14	1.17	0.32	0.39	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	257	111	241	26	3-1	5-15	18-51	0.43	0.94	0.57	0.29

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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