CHAMPION: Thiesse/Dropkin Wins 2024 Rocky Mountain Mixed Doubles Classic

Games:	8
Record:	8W - 0L
PF/G:	12.94
PA/G:	4.12
Hammer Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.80
Steal Efficiency:	0.41

Cory Thiesse/Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) won 6-1 over Paige Papley/Evan van Amsterdam (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Rocky Mountain Mixed Doubles Classic, held January 4 - 7, 2024 at the Banff Curling Club in Banff, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Thiesse/Dropkin won 9-1 over Jaelyn Cotter/Jim Cotter (Vernon, BC) in the semifinals of the 2024 Rocky Mountain Mixed Doubles Classic in Banff, Alberta, Canada; and won 8-5 over Amanda Sluchinski/Aaron Sluchinski (Airdrie, AB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2024 Rocky Mountain Mixed Doubles Classic in Banff, Alberta, Canada;

Thiesse/Dropkin finished 5-0 in the 30-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Thiesse/Dropkin defeated Jennifer Sachkiw/Ryan Jacques (Banff, AB) 10-2, then won 9-4 against Roxie Trembath/Sean Grassie (Winnipeg, MB) and 8-1 against Alyssa Nedohin/David Nedohin (Sherwood Park, AB). Thiesse/Dropkin won 7-4 against Selena Sturmay/Kyler Kleibrink (Edmonton, AB), then won 9-3 against Tahli Gill/Dean Hewitt (Brisbane, AUS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Rocky Mountain Mixed Doubles Classic Championship title, Thiesse/Dropkin earned 30.000 world rankings points along with the $8,000CDN first prize cheque. Thiesse/Dropkin move up 8 spots after posting a net gain of 9.782 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 14th overall with 77.126 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Thiesse/Dropkin ranks 31st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 37.188 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	20	1	0	0.952	2-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	141	164	66	11.63	4.68	6.95	6.60	3.33	1.76	1.40	0.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	59	97	11	0	4-0	12-0	11-1	1.64	0.19	0.46	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	82	67	55	1	0-1	8-3	7-9	0.82	0.67	0.65	0.54

2024: Jocelyn Peterman
Jocelyn Peterman, Brett Gallant
Edmonton, AB
2024: Cory Thiesse
Cory Thiesse, Korey Dropkin
Duluth, MN
2021: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, John Morris
Ottawa, ON
2020: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, John Morris , Al Hackner
Canmore, AB
2019: Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson, Korey Dropkin
Minneapolis, MN

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