Ruohonen Reaches 2021 Curve US Open of Curling Contender Semifinals

SKIP
Rich
Ruohonen

Third
Andrew
Stopera

Second
Colin
Hufman

Lead
Kroy
Nernberger

Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) run at the 2021 Curve US Open of Curling Contender came to an end in the semifinals with a 6-5 loss to Greg Persinger (Fairbanks, AK).

Ruohonen finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ruohonen defeated Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN) 6-5, then won 5-4 against Jed Brundidge (East St. Paul, MN) and 8-4 against Persinger in their final qualifying round match.

Ruohonen ranks 387th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	29	14	0	0.674	11-5	8-6	8-2	2-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	326	277	211	8.50	6.47	2.02	5.03	3.87	1.69	1.67	1.10

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	151	195	31	19	7-1	9-2	42-3	1.29	0.21	0.44	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	175	82	180	17	2-3	5-13	13-39	0.47	1.03	0.48	0.30

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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