Brown Runner-Up at 2014 USA National Championship

SKIP
Craig
Brown

Third
Kroy
Nernberger

Second
Matt
Hamilton

Lead
Jon
Brunt

Craig Brown (Madison, WI) lost 9-3 to Pete Fenson (Bemidji, MN) in the Final of the USA National Championship, held March 1 - 8, 2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Brown finished 7-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brown lost 7-2 to Fenson, then responded with a 9-2 win over Heath McCormick (Duluth, MN). Brown won 7-1 against Alex Leichter (Rochester, NY). Brown went on to lose 7-3 against Brady Clark (Seattle, WA). Brown responded with a 10-4 win over Peter Stolt (St. Paul, MN). Brown won 8-7 against Paul Pustovar (Duluth, MN), then won 6-2 against Tyler George (New York, NY) and 6-5 against Eric Fenson (Bemidji, MN). Brown won 7-5 against John Shuster (Duluth, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the USA National Championship, Brown take home 35.000 world rankings points, moving up 17 spots the World Ranking Standings into 34th place overall with 71.259 total points. Brown ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 56.665 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	42	13	0	0.764	9-3	10-2	6-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	379	334	206	8.81	5.44	3.38	4.93	3.77	1.79	1.44	1.29

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	171	233	30	22	10-0	15-0	43-6	1.36	0.18	0.46	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	208	101	176	27	2-1	4-11	25-32	0.49	0.85	0.63	0.30

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