Bronze for Dropkin at 2023 Pan-Continental Championships

SKIP
Korey
Dropkin

Third
Andrew
Stopera

Second
Mark
Fenner

Lead
Thomas
Howell

Korey Dropkin (Duluth, USA) won 8-7 over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada. of the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada; Korey Dropkin (Duluth, USA) won 8-7 over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada. Dropkin lost 9-6 to ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada;

Dropkin finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin defeated Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) 10-8, then won 9-2 against Chinese Taipei's Randie Shen. Dropkin went on to lose 10-6 against Jeong. Dropkin responded with a 10-7 win over Yanagisawa. Dropkin won 6-2 against Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL), then won 8-3 against Jay Merchant (Melbourne, AUS) and 9-3 against Marcelo Mello (Sao Paolo, BRA) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Pan-Continental Championships, Dropkin earn 21.250 world rankings points. Dropkin gained 6.5 points improving upon their best 4 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 12thplace overall with 190.496 total points. Dropkin ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 131.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	55	35	0	0.611	8-5	11-10	2-2	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	685	508	452	7.42	6.60	0.82	4.31	4.26	1.72	1.55	1.43

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	334	381	97	50	14-1	19-4	84-15	1.14	0.29	0.41	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	351	127	355	48	4-12	9-14	15-67	0.36	1.01	0.58	0.23

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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