CHAMPION: Thiesse/Dropkin Wins 2024 Colorado Curling Cup

Games:	8
Record:	8W - 0L
PF/G:	13.78
PA/G:	5.56
Hammer Efficiency:	0.62
Steal Defense:	0.14
Force Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Efficiency:	0.38

Cory Thiesse/Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) won 8-5 over Nancy Martin/Steve Laycock (Saskatoon , SK) in the Final of the Colorado Curling Cup, held September 27 - 29, 2024 at the Rock Creek Curling in Lafayette, United States. To advance to the championship game, Thiesse/Dropkin won 8-3 over Sarah Anderson/Andrew Stopera (Chaska, MN) in the semifinals of the 2024 Colorado Curling Cup in Lafayette, Colorado, United States; and won 10-8 over Taylor Anderson-Heide/Ben Richardson (Chaska, MN) in the quarterfinals. of the 2024 Colorado Curling Cup in Lafayette, Colorado, United States;

Thiesse/Dropkin finished 4-0 in the 30-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Thiesse/Dropkin defeated Rilee Kraft/Cayden Kraft (Bismarck, ND) 8-2, then won 11-2 against Harley Scebbi/Vincent Scebbi (Cleveland, OH) and 7-4 against Emily Schweitzer/Blake Hagberg (Minneapolis, MN). Thiesse/Dropkin won 9-1 against Leah Yavarow/Kevin Tuma (Saint Paul, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Colorado Curling Cup Championship title, Thiesse/Dropkin earned 22.500 world rankings points along with the $5,412CDN first prize cheque. For week 9 of the event schedule, Thiesse/Dropkin did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Thiesse/Dropkin 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

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

2023: Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson, Andrew Stopera , Mark Lazar
Minneapolis, MN
2022: Cora Farrell
Cora Farrell, Coleman Thurston
Chaska, MN
2019: Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson, Korey Dropkin , Dave Jensen
Minneapolis, USA

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