CHAMPION: Brown Wins 2013 FSCC Early Cash

SKIP
Craig
Brown

Third
Kroy
Nernberger

Second
Matt
Hamilton

Lead
Jon
Brunt

Craig Brown (Madison, WI) won 6-1 over Korey Dropkin (Southborough, MA) in the Final of the FSCC Early Cash, held September 20 - 22, 2013 in Blaine, Minnesota. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Brown won 8-5 over Ryan Lemke (Medford, WI) to advance to the championship game. of the 2013 FSCC Early Cash in Blaine, Minnesota;

Brown finished 4-0 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brown defeated Stephen Dropkin (St. Paul, MN) 7-4, then won 8-3 against Peter Stolt (Plymouth, MN) and 7-1 against John Lilla (St Paul, MN). Brown won 7-3 against Eric Fenson (Bemidji, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the FSCC Early Cash Championship title, Brown earned 2.500 world rankings points along with the $3,084CDN first prize cheque, moving up 6 spots the World Ranking Standings into 62nd place overall with 17.094 total points. Brown ranks 52nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	42	13	0	0.764	9-3	10-2	6-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	379	334	206	8.81	5.44	3.38	4.93	3.77	1.79	1.44	1.29

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	171	233	30	22	10-0	15-0	43-6	1.36	0.18	0.46	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	208	101	176	27	2-1	4-11	25-32	0.49	0.85	0.63	0.30

Canada's Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant (Photo: World Curling) took down the reigning gold medalists to stay on pace for top spot in the pool.

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