Rhyme/Smith

Kim Rhyme/Jason Smith (St. Paul, MN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Rhyme/Smith finished 5-2 in the 26-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Rhyme/Smith defeated Daisy-Scarlett MacCallum/Brian Terwedo (Minneapolis, MN) 7-4, then went on to lose 10-8 against Christine McMakin/Riley Fenson (Bemidji, MN). Rhyme/Smith responded with a 9-3 win over Julia DiBaggio/Michael Mann (Cleveland, OH). Rhyme/Smith won 9-1 against BriAnna Weldon/Sean Franey (Oakland, CA), then won 7-6 against Sydney Mullaney/Chase Sinnett (Wayland, MA). Rhyme/Smith went on to lose 11-6 against Delaney Strouse/Daniel Casper (Midland, MI) to drop into a C-Qualifier game where they responded with a 9-5 win over Weldon/Franey to advance to the playoff round. in their final qualifying round match.

Rhyme/Smith earned 10.143 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Rhyme/Smith gained 10.142 points improving upon their best 6 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 778thplace overall with 14.282 total points. Rhyme/Smith ranks 113th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 14.282 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	4	3	0	0.571	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	53	48	40	9.06	7.55	1.51	5.47	4.53	1.66	1.67	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	20	28	10	0	2-0	1-2	4-1	1.40	0.50	0.35	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	33	20	30	0	1-1	0-0	3-8	0.61	0.91	0.53	0.42

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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