Persinger Runner-Up at 2021 Curve US Open of Curling Contender

SKIP
Greg
Persinger

Third
Craig
Brown

Second
Alex
Leichter

Lead
Dominik
Maerki

Greg Persinger (Fairbanks, AK) lost 8-6 to Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA) in the Final of the Curve US Open of Curling Contender, held August 27 - 29, 2021 at the Four Seasons Curling Club in Blaine, United States. To advance to the championship game, Persinger won 6-5 over Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) in the semifinals

Persinger finished 3-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Persinger defeated Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO) 9-4, then won 7-1 against Brandon Corbett (Rochester, NY). Persinger went on to lose 8-4 against Ruohonen. Persinger lost 5-4 to Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN) where Persinger responded with a 6-2 win over Jed Brundidge (East St. Paul, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Persinger ranks 413th 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	17	13	0	0.567	2-3	5-5	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	235	195	164	8.30	6.98	1.32	4.68	4.68	1.77	1.49	0.64

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	112	145	36	5	4-0	13-2	26-6	1.29	0.32	0.40	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	123	50	128	10	0-2	6-5	9-26	0.41	1.04	0.61	0.24

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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