Usselman Runner-Up at 2018 Avonair Cash Spiel

SKIP
Thomas
Usselman

Third
Aaron
Sarafinchan

Second
Morgan
Van Doesburg

Lead
Brad
Kokoroyannis

Thomas Usselman (Rocky Mountain House, AB) lost 4-2 to Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Avonair Cash Spiel, held September 27 - 30, 2018 at the Avonair Curling Club in Edmonton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Usselman won 6-3 over SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR) in the semifinals of the 2018 Avonair Cash Spiel in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and won 6-0 over Aaron Sluchinski (Airdrie, AB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 Avonair Cash Spiel in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Usselman finished 4-0 in the 25-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Usselman defeated Dustin Kalthoff (Saskatoon, SK) 4-3, then won 5-4 against Scott Garnett (Calgary, AB) and 6-5 against Warren Cross (Edmonton, AB). Usselman won 5-2 against Desmond Young (Edmonton , AB) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Avonair Cash Spiel, Usselman take home 17.529 world rankings points along with the $2,400CDN prize, moving up 115 spots the World Ranking Standings into 125th place overall with 24.578 total points. Usselman ranks 42nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 17.529 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

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: Kody Hartung
Kody Hartung, Tyler Hartung, Brady Scharback, Brady Kendel
Saskatoon, SK
2021: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Chang-Min Kim, Jae Ik Jeon, Hak Kyun Kim , So Min Yoon
Uiseong, KOR
2019: Jeremy Harty
Jeremy Harty, Kyler Kleibrink, Joel Berger, Kurtis Goller
Calgary, AB
2018: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Jason Ginter, Glenn Venance
Edmonton, AB
2017: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Dean Mamer, Kerr Drummond, Dylan Webster
Airdrie,
2016: Glen Hansen
Glen Hansen, Dean Ross, Don Bartlett, George Parsons
Edmonton, AB
2015: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
, KOR
2014: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Jongduk Park, Taehwan Kim, Minhyeon Yoo
Gang Won, KOR
2013: Ted Appelman
Ted Appelman, Shawn Donnelly, Landon Bucholz, Bryce Bucholz
Edmonton, AB

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