Dropkin4-3 at US Men's Challenge Round

SKIP
Stephen
Dropkin

Third
Ethan
Meyers

Second
Trevor
Host

Lead
Brandon
Myhre

Stephen Dropkin (Minneapolis, MN) finished 4-3 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin defeated Daryl Horsman (Phoenix, AZ) 13-6, then went on to lose 11-2 against John Lilla (St Paul, MN, MN). Dropkin lost 5-3 to Bret Jackson (Brighton, MI) where Dropkin responded with a 7-5 win over Kraig Deeren (Madison, IL). Dropkin won 9-3 against Jeremy Roe (Madison, WI), then won 8-1 against Jackson. Dropkin went on to lose 7-6 against Minnesota's Josh Bahr in their final qualifying round match.

Dropkin earned 2.093 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 8 spots the World Ranking Standings into 165th place overall with 19.226 total points. Dropkin ranks 150th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 14.351 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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