Watkins4-3 at 2013 Dauphin Clinic Pharmacy Classic

Neal Watkins (Swan River, MB) finished 4-3 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Watkins lost 6-2 to Terry Marteniuk (Yorkton, SK), then responded with a 4-3 win over Alexander Attinger (Dubendorf, SUI). Watkins won 3-2 against Joel Jordison (Regina, SK). Watkins went on to lose 6-4 against Geoff Trimble (Gladstone, MB). Watkins responded with a 6-3 win over Rae Kujanpaa (Dauphin, MB). Watkins won 5-1 against Sam Antila (Thompson, MB). Watkins went on to lose 6-3 against David Kraichy (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

Watkins earned 0.625 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 306 spots the World Ranking Standings into 320th place overall with 0.625 total points. Watkins ranks 220th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	4	3	0	0.571	4-1	0-2	2-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	51	27	27	5.29	5.29	0.00	3.92	4.12	1.35	1.29	1.96

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	30	23	8	7	0-0	2-0	3-1	0.77	0.27	0.22	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	21	4	19	3	0-0	0-1	0-3	0.19	0.90	0.71	0.19

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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