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Bottcher finished the final day of round-robin play at the Canadian men's curling championship with a 9-2 win over Wild Card Mike McEwen on Wednesday to earn the No. 1 seed entering the next round of play.
Bottcher, Brad Gushue's Team Canada, Northern Ontario's Brad Jacobs and Ontario's John Epping all finished the round robin with 6-1 records, but the Alberta skip took the No. 1 seed in the Championship Pool after his Pool A win earlier in the day over Gushue.
McEwen dropped to 5-2 with the loss, but still moved on as the top four teams from two pools advance to the Championship Pool of eight. Manitoba's Reid Carruthers also finished 5-2 to advance.
Newfoundland and Labrador was looking for its second win of the round-robin going up against Team Canada in the evening draw. Greg Smith of St. John's, N.L., was able to force a few ends against the 2017 Brier champion, but fell 7-2 in eight.
Northwest Territories' Jamie Koe was able to take control of the game offensively in an 8-2 win over Yukon's Thomas Scoffin, who conceded in eight ends. Draw 14 was important for the Koe rink, which needed the win to improve its record to 3-4 and create a possible three-way tie for fourth spot coming out of Pool A.
But the do-or-die situation for Nova Scotia's Jamie Murphy against B.C., in Draw 14 sealed the fate for Kelowna skip Sean Geall and Whitehorse's Koe.
Nova Scotia edged B.C. 8-6 in ten ends, improving its record to 4-3 to advance.
The championship pool gets underway Thursday afternoon at the Brandt Centre in Regina.
Bottcher faces Steve Laycock of Saskatchewan, Gushue plays Carruthers, Jacobs is up against Murphy while McEwen plays Epping.
(Canadian Press)
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