Farbelow4-3 at US Men's Challenge Round

St. Paul, Minnesota

SKIP
Mike
Farbelow

Third
Rich
Ruohonen

Second
Chris
Bond

Lead
Dan
Ruehl

Games:	7
Record:	4W - 3L
PF/G:	7.54
PA/G:	5.74
Hammer Efficiency:	0.24
Steal Defense:	0.17
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.39

Mike Farbelow (St. Paul, MN) finished 4-3 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Farbelow defeated Eric Fenson (Bemidji, MN) 10-0, then went on to lose 9-4 against Brandon Corbett (Rochester, NY). Farbelow lost 8-4 to Minnesota's Josh Bahr where Farbelow responded with a 7-4 win over Lyle Sieg (Seattle, WA). Farbelow won 6-4 against John Lilla (St Paul, MN, MN), then won 10-4 against Tucker Smith (Rolla, ND). Farbelow went on to lose 6-5 against Heath McCormick (New York, NY) in their final qualifying round match.

Farbelow earned 2.093 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, dropping 2 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 79th place overall with 60.094 total points. Farbelow ranks 92nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 32.830 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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