Nickel/Nickel Reaches 2023 Curling Stadium SaskTour Mixed Doubles Series Quarters

Kirstin Nickel/Gabriel Nickel (Hudson, WI) qualified for the 2023 Curling Stadium SaskTour Mixed Doubles Series playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 8-1 against Madison Kleiter/Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK).

Nickel/Nickel finished 3-1 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nickel/Nickel defeated Renee Sobering/Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO) 7-6, then won 7-3 against Madison Johnson/Cody Sutherland (Saskatoon , SK) and 6-5 against Nancy Martin/Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK). Nickel/Nickel went on to lose 5-3 against Stephanie Bukurak/Adam Bukurak (Regina, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

Nickel/Nickel earned 7.500 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Curling Stadium SaskTour Mixed Doubles Series. For week 16 of the event schedule, Nickel/Nickel did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 88th to 90th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 18.656 total points. Nickel/Nickel ranks 124th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.188 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	15	25	0	0.375	3-3	1-1	0-0	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	271	216	265	7.97	9.78	-1.81	4.35	5.61	1.83	1.74	0.04

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	154	171	105	0	13-2	14-6	15-18	1.11	0.68	0.27	0.45

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	117	45	160	1	0-9	3-13	6-21	0.38	1.37	0.48	0.28

Duluth's Korey Dropkin (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) is set to begin their tour season at the Euro Super Series in Stirling, Scotland.

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