Birr3-0 at USA Men's Challenge Round

SKIP
Todd
Birr

Third
Hunter
Clawson

Second
Greg
Johnson

Lead
Tom
O'Connor

Todd Birr (Blaine, MN) finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Birr defeated Daniel Brown (Madison, WI) 5-3, then won 8-4 against Jed Brundidge (St. Paul, SD) and 10-2 against Steve Birklid (Seattle, WA) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the USA Men's Challenge Round Championship title, Birr earned 10.725 world rankings points, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 93rd place overall with 48.980 total points. Birr ranks 111th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 31.002 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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