Birr3-2 at USA Mens Challenge Round

SKIP
Todd
Birr

Third
Doug
Pottinger

Second
Greg
Romaniuk

Lead
Tom
O'Connor

Todd Birr (Mankato, MN) finished 3-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Birr defeated Matt Mielke (Medford, MA) 4-2, then won 8-7 against Jeremy Roe (Rio, WI). Birr went on to lose 7-4 against Greg Persinger (Fairbanks, AK). Birr lost 8-3 to Ryan Lemke (Medford, WI) where Birr responded with a 7-6 win over Owen Sampson (Edmore, ND) in their final qualifying round match.

. For week 21 of the event schedule, Birr did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 67th to 69th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 26.169 total points. Birr ranks 71st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.275 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

Manitoba's Kate Cameron (Photo: Curling Canada) announced on Monday that the team will look different for the new Olympic quadrennial.