Stopera4-4 at 2018 Qinghai Curling Elite

Chaska, United States

SKIP
Andrew
Stopera

Third
Luc
Violette

Second
Ben
Richardson

Lead
Graem
Fenson

Games:	8
Record:	4W - 4L
PF/G:	8.47
PA/G:	7.97
Hammer Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Defense:	0.30
Force Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Efficiency:	0.34

Andrew Stopera (Chaska, USA) finished 4-4 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Stopera defeated Mingjie Yuan (Beijing, CHN) 7-3, then won 4-1 against Weihaoping Wang (Beijing, CHN) and 8-1 against Jan Hess (Zug, SUI). Stopera went on to lose 8-7 against Daniel Magnusson (Karlstad, SWE). Stopera lost 8-7 to Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) where Stopera responded with a 10-9 win over Glen Muirhead (Perth, SCO). Stopera went on to lose 7-1 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). Stopera lost 10-6 to Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

Stopera earned 5.586 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 69th place overall with 65.599 total points. Stopera ranks 66th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 46.578 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

2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Braeden Moskowy, Catlin Schneider, Dustin Kidby
Regina, SK
2017: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Romano Keller-Meier, Michael Brunner, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI

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