CHAMPION: Liu Wins 2014 FSCC U.S. Open of Curling

SKIP
Rui
Liu

Third
Jia Liang
Zang

Second
Xiao Ming
Xu

Lead
De Xin
Ba

Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) won 7-5 over Scott Ramsay (winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the FSCC U.S. Open of Curling, held January 3 - 5, 2014 in Blaine, Minnesota. To advance to the championship game, Liu won 6-0 over Tyler George (New York, NY) in the semifinals of the 2014 FSCC U.S. Open of Curling in Blaine, Minnesota; and won 7-6 over Heath McCormick (St Paul, MN) in the quarterfinals.

Liu finished 5-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Liu defeated Mark Willmert (Blaine, MN) 6-1, then won 8-4 against Jeff Currie (Thunder Bay, ON) and 8-0 against Korey Dropkin (Southborough, MA). Liu won 6-5 against Cory Ward (St. Paul, MN), then won 7-0 against Allison Pottinger (Bemidji, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the FSCC U.S. Open of Curling Championship title, Liu earned 7.750 world rankings points along with the $8,523CDN first prize cheque, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 15th place overall with 143.835 total points. Liu ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 76.905 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	65	32	0	0.670	28-16	11-12	10-14	2-3	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	784	613	470	7.82	5.99	1.82	4.89	3.85	1.60	1.56	1.26

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	383	430	89	55	5-0	26-7	95-13	1.12	0.23	0.38	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	401	183	381	44	3-7	15-21	27-77	0.46	0.95	0.56	0.29

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