Sieg2-3 at US Men's Challenge Round

SKIP
Lyle
Sieg

Third
Steven
Birklid

Second
Sam
Galey

Lead
Matt
Birklid

Lyle Sieg (Seattle, WA) finished 2-3 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sieg defeated Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO) 11-8, then went on to lose 7-4 against Alex Leichter (Boston, MA). Sieg lost 9-8 to Minnesota's Josh Bahr where Sieg responded with a 8-4 win over Eric Fenson (Bemidji, MN). Sieg went on to lose 7-4 against Mike Farbelow (St. Paul, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Sieg earned 1.046 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 227th place overall with 10.742 total points. Sieg ranks 269th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.148 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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