Yuan4-4 at 2018 Qinghai Curling Elite

SKIP
Mingjie
Yuan

Third
Dongxu
Jiang

Second
Jiawen
Nan

Lead
Hongbo
Li

Mingjie Yuan (Beijing, CHN) finished 4-4 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yuan lost 7-3 to Andrew Stopera (Chaska, USA), droppimg another game, 8-2 to Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK). Yuan lost 8-4 to Glen Muirhead (Perth, SCO) where Yuan responded with a 6-2 win over Weihaoping Wang (Beijing, CHN). Yuan won 6-3 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Yuan went on to lose 7-3 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). Yuan responded with a 5-4 win over Jan Hess (Zug, SUI). Yuan won 7-5 against Daniel Magnusson (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Yuan earned 5.586 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 27 spots the World Ranking Standings into 160th place overall with 22.471 total points. Yuan ranks 131st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.471 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

2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Braeden Moskowy, Catlin Schneider, Dustin Kidby
Regina, SK
2017: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Romano Keller-Meier, Michael Brunner, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI

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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