Stopera3-5 at 2017 Qinghai International

SKIP
Andrew
Stopera

Third
Luc
Violette

Second
Ben
Richardson

Lead
Graem
Fenson

Andrew Stopera (Chicago, IL) finished 3-5 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Stopera lost 8-6 to Kristian Lindstroem (Lit, SWE), then responded with a 8-7 win over Tanner Horgan (Sudbury, NONT). Stopera went on to lose 8-6 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Stopera lost 10-3 to Greg Drummond (Stirling, SCO). Stopera lost 11-4 to Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) where Stopera responded with a 7-4 win over Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS). Stopera won 9-8 against Zhi Yu Wang (Changchun, CHN). Stopera went on to lose 8-5 against Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Stopera earned 3.032 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 115th place overall with 47.026 total points. Stopera ranks 116th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.311 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Braeden Moskowy, Catlin Schneider, Dustin Kidby
Regina, SK
2017: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Romano Keller-Meier, Michael Brunner, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, 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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