Bear1-6 at 2019 China Open

SKIP
Madison
Bear

Third
Lexi
Daly

Second
Jenna
Burchesky

Lead
Emily
Quello

Madison Bear (St.Paul, MN) finished 1-6 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bear lost 6-3 to Yu Han (Beijing, CHN), droppimg another game, 8-3 to Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg , RUS). Bear lost 10-3 to Corryn Brown (Kamloops, BC). Bear lost 9-4 to Daniela Jentsch (Fuessen, GER). Bear lost 6-1 to EunJung Kim (Uiseong, KOR) where Bear responded with a 7-3 win over Asuka Kanai (Nagano, JPN). Bear went on to lose 6-5 against Irene Schori (Limmattal, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Bear earned 1.761 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Bear gained -2.406 points improving upon their best 8 events, though dropped 2 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 104thplace overall with 30.087 total points. Bear ranks 125th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.418 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

The Swiss Olympic rink (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) are off and running as they aim to top the podium in Cortina.

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