Dropkin4-5 at 2020 USA Curling National Championship

SKIP
Korey
Dropkin

Third
Thomas
Howell

Second
Mark
Fenner

Lead
Alex
Fenson

Korey Dropkin (Chaska, USA) finished 4-5 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin defeated Kyle Kakela (Rolla, ND) 7-3, then won 7-5 against Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA) and 7-6 against Jed Brundidge (West St. Paul, MN). Dropkin went on to lose 8-2 against Chase Sinnett (Medfield, MA). Dropkin lost 10-9 to John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Dropkin lost 7-6 to Steven Birklid (Mountlake Terrace, WA). Dropkin lost 7-4 to Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, USA). Dropkin lost 5-4 to Dominik Maerki (Chaska, MN) where Dropkin responded with a 10-2 win over Todd Birr (Ham Lake, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Dropkin earned 9.337 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Dropkin gained 2.225 points improving upon their best 8 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 13thplace overall with 215.440 total points. Dropkin ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 215.440 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

Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner (Photo: Stephen Fisher/World Curling) are semifinal bound after picking up an eighth victory in Fredericton.

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