Ruohonen Reaches 2018 Humpty's Champions Cup Quarters

Fourth
Greg
Persinger

SKIP
Rich
Ruohonen

Second
Colin
Hufman

Lead
Philip
Tilker

Rich Ruohonen (Seattle, WA) qualified for the 2018 Humpty's Champions Cup playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 7-6 against Glenn Howard (Islington, ON). of the 2018 Humpty's Champions Cup in Calgary, Alberta;

Ruohonen finished 2-2 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ruohonen defeated Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, ON) 5-3, then went on to lose 5-4 against Tyler Tardi (Langley, BC). Ruohonen responded with a 7-2 win over Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB). Ruohonen went on to lose 7-2 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in their final qualifying round match.

Ruohonen earned 31.265 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Humpty's Champions Cup. Ruohonen move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 21.291 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 23rd overall with 324.869 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ruohonen ranks 18th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 209.032 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

2022: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2021: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. , Alan Hannah
Stirling, SCO
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2017: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2016: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Braeden Moskowy, Derek Samagalski, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, MB

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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