Birr3-2 at 2013 St. Paul Cash Spiel

Blaine, Minnesota

SKIP
Todd
Birr

Third
Doug
Pottinger

Second
Tom
O'Connor

Lead
Troy
Schroeder

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	7.37
PA/G:	7.11
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.14
Force Efficiency:	0.62
Steal Efficiency:	0.19

Todd Birr (Blaine, MN) finished 3-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Birr defeated Peter Stolt (St. Paul, MN) 7-5, then went on to lose 5-1 against Jeff Currie (Thunder Bay, ON). Birr lost 7-6 to Minnesota's Eric Fenson where Birr responded with a 7-6 win over New York's Heath McCormick. Birr won 7-4 against Mark Willmert (St. Paul, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Birr earned 0.700 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 79th place overall with 13.159 total points. Birr ranks 94th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.450 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	21	15	0	0.583	5-4	1-1	0-3	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	241	208	164	8.63	6.81	1.83	4.73	4.15	1.82	1.64	1.12

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	120	145	51	15	7-2	13-2	23-7	1.21	0.43	0.41	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	121	63	113	12	1-1	6-8	7-26	0.52	0.93	0.49	0.34

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2019: Rich Ruohonen
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2018: Andrew Stopera
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2017: Heath McCormick
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2016: Heath McCormick
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Blaine, USA
2015: Todd Birr
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2011: Tyler George
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2010: Tyler George
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2004: Howard Restall
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Winnipeg, MB
2003: Paul Pustovar
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2002: Dave Smith
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2001: Paul Pustovar
Paul Pustovar
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2000: Craig Brown
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1999: Tim Somerville
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1998: Bruce Melville
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Thunder Bay, ON
1994: Steve Brown
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Madison, WI

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