Epping Reaches 2024 Henderson Metal Fall Classic presented by Kioti Tractors of Ontario Quarters

Sudbury, Northern Ontario

SKIP
John
Epping

Third
Jake
Horgan

Second
Tanner
Horgan

Lead
Ian
McMillan

Games:	8
Record:	5W - 3L
PF/G:	9.09
PA/G:	5.64
Hammer Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Defense:	0.19
Force Efficiency:	0.72
Steal Efficiency:	0.21

John Epping (Sudbury, NO) qualified for the 2024 Henderson Metal Fall Classic presented by Kioti Tractors of Ontario playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-5 against Matt Dunstone (Winnipeg, MB).

Epping finished 5-2 in the 28-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Epping defeated Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) 10-2, then went on to lose 5-4 against Joel Retornaz (Cembra, ITA). Epping responded with a 8-0 win over Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR). Epping won 7-1 against Sandy MacEwan (Sudbury, NO), then won 5-2 against Retornaz to advance to a B-Qualifier game where they lost 9-4 against Mark Kean (Woodstock, ON) to drop into a C-Qualifier game where they responded with a 7-6 win over Brad Jacobs (Edmonton, AB) to advance to the playoff round. in their final qualifying round match.

Epping earned 21.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Henderson Metal Fall Classic presented by Kioti Tractors of Ontario. For week 12 of the event schedule, Epping did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Epping ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	71	23	0	0.755	7-1	6-4	1-1	2-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	668	614	384	9.19	5.75	3.44	4.82	4.00	1.91	1.44	1.18

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	328	464	65	44	23-0	34-3	87-7	1.41	0.20	0.51	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	340	150	319	35	4-2	10-6	25-86	0.44	0.94	0.56	0.26

2025: Rich Ruohonen
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Chaska, MN
2024: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, B.J. Neufeld, Colton Lott, Ryan Harnden
Winnipeg, MB
2023: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, B.J. Neufeld, Colton Lott, Ryan Harnden , Adam Kingsbury
Winnipeg, MB

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