Ruohonen1-6 at 2023 USA Curling National Championships

SKIP
Rich
Ruohonen

Third
Samuel
Strouse

Second
Connor
Kauffman

Lead
Aidan
Oldenburg

Rich Ruohonen (Chaska, MN) finished 1-6 in the 8 team USA Curling National Championships qualifying round, held February 5 - 13, 2023 in , . In their opening game, Ruohonen defeated Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN) 7-4, then went on to lose 8-6 against Jason Smith (Nashville, TN). Ruohonen lost 9-8 to Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN). Ruohonen lost 8-1 to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN). Ruohonen lost 9-4 to Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA). Ruohonen lost 10-5 to Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO). Ruohonen lost 6-4 to John Shuster (Duluth, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Ruohonen earned 2.063 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 8 spots the World Ranking Standings into 128th place overall with 22.251 total points. Ruohonen ranks 127th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 20.252 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	11	35	0	0.239	0-2	3-14	2-3	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	325	191	297	5.88	9.14	-3.26	3.72	5.29	1.58	1.73	0.98

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	178	150	103	19	3-1	7-6	36-19	0.84	0.58	0.29	0.39

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	147	41	194	13	0-5	2-15	6-43	0.28	1.32	0.39	0.21

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