CHAMPION: Epping Wins 2016 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling

SKIP
John
Epping

Third
Mathew
Camm

Second
Patrick
Janssen

Lead
Tim
March

John Epping (Toronto, ON) won 7-3 over Craig Brown (Blaine, USA) in the Final of the ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling, held January 1 - 4, 2016 at the Four Seasons Curling Club in Blaine, United States. To advance to the championship game, Epping won 4-2 over William Lyburn (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2016 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling in Blaine, Minnesota, United States; and won 5-3 over Alex Forrest (Winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2016 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling in Blaine, Minnesota, United States;

Epping finished 4-0 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Epping defeated Stephen Dropkin (Minneapolis, MN) 9-4, then won 6-1 against Mike Farbelow (St. Paul, MN) and 8-2 against Pete Fenson (Blaine, USA). Epping won 6-3 against Adam Casey (summerside, PEI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling Championship title, Epping earned 48.610 world rankings points along with the $9,729CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 8th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 44.44 after improving upon their best so far this season. Epping ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 297.673 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

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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