Moores/Wheeler4-3 at 2023 USA Curling Mixed Doubles National Championship

Clare Moores/Lance Wheeler (Golden, CO) finished 4-3 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Moores/Wheeler lost 5-4 to Melissa Fountain/Tony Kot (Lafayette, CO), droppimg another game, 9-0 to Aileen Geving/John Shuster (Duluth, MN) where Moores/Wheeler responded with a 7-2 win over Rebecca Hamilton/Matt Hamilton (McFarland, WI). Moores/Wheeler won 5-4 against Kim Rhyme/Jason Smith (Minneapolis, MN). Moores/Wheeler went on to lose 7-5 against Vicky Persinger/Christopher Plys (Fairbanks, AK). Moores/Wheeler responded with a 8-3 win over Regan Birr/Todd Birr (Ham Lake, MN). Moores/Wheeler won 12-0 against Harley Rohrbacher/Vincent Scebbi (Cleveland, OH) in their final qualifying round match.

Moores/Wheeler earned 9.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 31 of the event schedule, Moores/Wheeler did not improve upon their best events, improving from 742nd to 709th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 1.500 total points. Moores/Wheeler ranks 316th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	17	15	0	0.531	4-2	5-2	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	217	201	169	9.26	7.79	1.47	5.30	4.70	1.75	1.66	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	99	119	74	0	6-0	13-9	16-15	1.20	0.75	0.35	0.41

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	118	82	95	0	1-0	3-11	16-12	0.69	0.81	0.62	0.48

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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