CHAMPION: Epping Wins 2024 Duluth Cash Spiel

Sudbury, Northern Ontario

SKIP
John
Epping

Third
Jake
Horgan

Second
Tanner
Horgan

Lead
Ian
McMillan

Games:	7
Record:	7W - 0L
PF/G:	11.52
PA/G:	5.65
Hammer Efficiency:	0.54
Steal Defense:	0.31
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.35

John Epping (Sudbury, NO) won 6-5 over Jordon McDonald (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Duluth Cash Spiel, held December 20 - 22, 2024 at the Duluth Curling Club in Duluth, United States. To advance to the championship game, Epping won 8-3 over Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) in the semifinals of the 2024 Duluth Cash Spiel in Duluth, Minnesota, United States; and won 8-7 over John Shuster (Duluth, MN) in the quarterfinals. of the 2024 Duluth Cash Spiel in Duluth, Minnesota, United States;

Epping finished 4-0 in the 25-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Epping defeated Carson McMullin (Eau Claire, WI) 9-5, then won 6-2 against Caden Hebert (Eau Claire, WI) and 7-3 against Trevor Bonot (Thunder Bay, NO). Epping won 9-1 against Chris Silver (Thunder Bay, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Duluth Cash Spiel Championship title, Epping earned 22.500 world rankings points along with the $9,334CDN first prize cheque. Epping gained 3 points improving upon their best 6 events, though dropped 2 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 14thplace overall with 211.416 total points. Epping ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 178.750 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

2024: Joe Polo
Korey Dropkin, Joe Polo, Matt Mellin, Derek Benson
Duluth, MN
2016: Heath McCormick
Heath McCormick, Christopher Plys, Korey Dropkin, Thomas Howell
Blaine, USA
2015: John Shuster
John Shuster, Tyler George, Matt Hamilton, Quinn Evenson
Duluth, USA
2014: Heath McCormick
Heath McCormick, Christopher Plys, Joe Polo, Ryan Brunt, Colin Hufman
Blaine, USA
2013: Craig Brown
Craig Brown, Kroy Nernberger, Matt Hamilton, Jon Brunt
Madison, WI
2012: Bryan Burgess
Bryan Burgess, Mike Pozihun, Dale Wiersema, Pat Berezowski
, ON
2011: Craig Brown
Craig Brown, Matt Hamilton, Kroy Nernberger, Derrick Casper
, WI
2010: Tyler George
Tyler George, Christopher Plys, Rich Ruohonen, Phill Drobnick
Duluth, MN
2008: Craig Brown
Craig Brown, Rich Ruohonen, John Dunlop, Pete Annis, Jon Brunt
Madison, WI
2007: Jeff Currie
Craig Brown, Rich Ruohonen, John Dunlop, Pete Annis, Jon Brunt
Thunder Bay, NO
2006: John Salo
John Salo, Ron Rosengren, Rob Sinclair, Gary Maunula
Thunder Bay, ON
2005: Paul Pustovar
Paul Pustovar, Greg Wilson, Patrick Roe, Richard Maskel
Hibbing, MN
2004: Marshall Bagdon
Marshall Bagdon, Robin Champagne, Gary Weiss, Aaron Rogalski
Thunder Bay, ON
2003: Todd Birr
Todd Birr, Pete Westberg, Kevin Birr, Greg Rheaume
Mankato, MN
2002: Pete Fenson
Pete Fenson
, USA

Koe into Playoffs in Okotoks

Alberta's Kevin Koe( photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) defeated British Columbia's Cameron de Jong 7-3 to grab a playoff spot at the ATB Okotoks Classic in Okotoks, Alberta.

Kubota Challenge: Gord Bamford vs Brad Gushue

EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)
STONE + STRAW: S02:EP06 - Jason Gunnlaugson

Host John Cullen travels to Thunder Bay, Ontario, for the Tour Challenge to interview Winnipeg's own Jason Gunnlaugson. Though Gunnlaugson has yet to win a... (read more)