McCormick4-5 at 2017 USA Men's National Curling Championship

SKIP
Heath
McCormick

Third
Christopher
Plys

Second
Korey
Dropkin

Lead
Thomas
Howell

Heath McCormick (Blaine, USA) finished 4-5 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, McCormick lost 10-2 to Todd Birr (Blaine, MN), then responded with a 9-3 win over Alex Leichter (Boston, MA). McCormick went on to lose 7-6 against Craig Brown (Blaine, USA). McCormick lost 5-3 to John Shuster (Duluth, USA) where McCormick responded with a 8-2 win over Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO). McCormick won 8-2 against Hunter Clawson (Laurel, MD). McCormick went on to lose 7-6 against Brady Clark (Seattle, WA). McCormick lost 9-3 to Pete Fenson (Bemidji, MN) where McCormick responded with a 8-1 win over Stephen Dropkin (Minneapolis, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

McCormick earned 5.891 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. McCormick move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 2.748 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 31st overall with 219.794 total points on the World Ranking Standings. McCormick ranks 17th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 177.100 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

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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