Leichter2-3 at 2016 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau

SKIP
Alex
Leichter

Third
Martin
Sather

Second
Nate
Clark

Lead
Ryan
Hallisey

Alex Leichter (Boston, USA) finished 2-3 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Leichter lost 8-2 to Jamie Murphy (Halifax, NS), droppimg another game, 7-5 to Rui Liu (HARBIN, CHN) where Leichter responded with a 7-4 win over Yi Hang Liang (Shanghai, CHN). Leichter won 6-2 against Ritchie Gillan (Ottawa, ON). Leichter went on to lose 7-3 against Sebastien Robillard (Ottawa, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Leichter earned 2.096 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 132nd place overall with 27.140 total points. Leichter ranks 179th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.067 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

2009: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Jean Gagnon
Gatineau, QC
2010: Serge Reid
Serge Reid, Francois Gionest, Simon Collin, Steeve Villeneuve
Saguenay, QC
2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau/Levis, QC
2012: Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Andrew Gibson
Halifax, NS
2013: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Craig Savill, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2017: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Xiao Ming Xu, Dongxu Jiang, Jia Liang Zang
Harbin, CHN
2018: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Jonathan Beuk, Wesley Forget, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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