Muirhead5-3 at 2018 Qinghai Curling Elite

SKIP
Glen
Muirhead

Third
Kyle
Smith

Second
Thomas
Muirhead

Lead
Cameron
Smith

Glen Muirhead (Perth, SCO) finished 5-3 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Muirhead defeated Weihaoping Wang (Beijing, CHN) 9-3, then went on to lose 7-3 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Muirhead responded with a 8-4 win over Mingjie Yuan (Beijing, CHN). Muirhead went on to lose 6-1 against Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK). Muirhead lost 10-9 to Andrew Stopera (Chaska, USA) where Muirhead responded with a 7-3 win over Daniel Magnusson (Karlstad, SWE). Muirhead won 4-2 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS), then won 5-4 against Jan Hess (Zug, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Muirhead earned 15.827 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Qinghai Curling Elite, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 19th place overall with 217.478 total points. Muirhead ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 149.376 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

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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