Mikkelsen3-8 at 2015 TBaytel Mens Major League of Curling

Thunder Bay, Ontario

SKIP
Ben
Mikkelsen

Third
Taylor
Kallos

Second
B.J.
Skinner

Lead
Mark
Adams

Games:	11
Record:	3W - 8L
PF/G:	7.50
PA/G:	8.42
Hammer Efficiency:	0.25
Steal Defense:	0.43
Force Efficiency:	0.48
Steal Efficiency:	0.29

Ben Mikkelsen (Thunder Bay, ON) finished 3-8 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mikkelsen defeated Matt Roberts (Thunder Bay, ON) 11-3, then went on to lose 6-5 against Trevor Bonot (Thunder Bay, ON). Mikkelsen lost 8-1 to Colin Koivula (Thunder Bay, ON). Mikkelsen lost 6-3 to Al Hackner (Thunder Bay, ON). Mikkelsen lost 5-0 to Liane Fossum (Thunder Bay, ON). Mikkelsen lost 8-7 to Devin Doran (Thunder Bay, ON). Mikkelsen lost 6-5 to Bryan Burgess (Thunder Bay, ON) where Mikkelsen responded with a 11-2 win over Gary Weiss (Thunder Bay, ON). Mikkelsen went on to lose 6-4 against Mike McCarville (Thunder Bay, ON). Mikkelsen responded with a 7-5 win over Krista McCarville (Thunder Bay, NONT). Mikkelsen went on to lose 9-3 against Scott Henderson (Thunder Bay, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Mikkelsen earned 0.732 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 6 spots the World Ranking Standings into 291st place overall with 5.842 total points. Mikkelsen ranks 390th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.732 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

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