Birr3-6 at 2013 USA National Championships

SKIP
Todd
Birr

Third
Doug
Pottinger

Second
Greg
Romaniuk

Lead
Tom
O'Connor

Todd Birr (Mankato, MN) finished 3-6 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Birr lost 9-1 to Heath McCormick (New York, NY), then responded with a 7-5 win over Mike Farbelow (Minneapolis, MN). Birr went on to lose 6-4 against Greg Persinger (Fairbanks, AK). Birr lost 8-7 to Craig Brown (Madison, WI). Birr lost 7-6 to John Shuster (Duluth, MN). Birr lost 8-5 to Tyler George (Duluth, MN) where Birr responded with a 7-3 win over Brady Clark (Seattle, WA). Birr went on to lose 8-5 against Pete Fenson (Bemidji, MN). Birr responded with a 8-6 win over Ryan Lemke (Medford, WI) in their final qualifying round match.

Birr earned 1.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 65th place overall with 27.669 total points. Birr ranks 68th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.775 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

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