Dropkin6-3 at 2014 USA Junior Men's Championship

SKIP
Korey
Dropkin

Third
Thomas
Howell

Second
Mark
Fenner

Lead
Alex
Fenson

Korey Dropkin (Southborough, MA) finished 6-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin lost 8-5 to Scott Dunnam (Dresher, PA), then responded with a 8-2 win over Daniel Dudt (Malvern, PA). Dropkin won 8-2 against Wesley Pedersen (Midland, MI), then won 9-3 against Daniel Plys (Duluth, MN). Dropkin went on to lose 10-4 against Jake Vukich (Seattle, WA). Dropkin responded with a 9-5 win over Brandon Scheel (Fargo, ND). Dropkin won 8-1 against Alhrik Schommer (Anchorage, AK), then won 8-3 against Clay Osterhaus (Dalton, WI). Dropkin went on to lose 9-4 against Ethan Meyers (Duluth, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Dropkin earned 4.000 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the USA Junior Men's Championship, moving up 14 spots the World Ranking Standings into 105th place overall with 14.526 total points. Dropkin ranks 116th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 5.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	18	18	0	0.500	3-5	2-2	3-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	253	171	193	6.76	7.63	-0.87	4.11	4.55	1.64	1.68	1.34

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	138	118	80	20	1-4	9-5	28-9	0.86	0.58	0.32	0.36

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	115	53	113	14	1-3	2-8	11-20	0.46	0.98	0.53	0.30

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