Ruohonen Reaches 2021 Curve US Open of Curling

Minneapolis, Minnesota

SKIP
Rich
Ruohonen

Third
Andrew
Stopera

Second
Colin
Hufman

Lead
Kroy
Nernberger

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	10.91
PA/G:	6.67
Hammer Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Defense:	0.19
Force Efficiency:	0.20
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) run at the 2021 Curve US Open of Curling - Championships came to an end in the semifinals with a 5-3 loss to Luc Violette (Chaska, MN). of the 2021 Curve US Open of Curling - Championships in Blaine, Minnesota, United States;

Ruohonen finished 3-1 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ruohonen defeated Tucker Smith (Sioux Falls, SD) 11-2, then won 7-6 against Violette. Ruohonen went on to lose 6-5 against Jed Brundidge (East St. Paul, MN). Ruohonen responded with a 10-3 win over Ting-Li Lin (Taiwan, TPE) in their final qualifying round match.

Ruohonen earned 14.864 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Curve US Open of Curling - Championships. Ruohonen move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 38.474 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 12th overall with 142.287 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ruohonen ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 38.474 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	29	14	0	0.674	11-5	8-6	8-2	2-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	326	277	211	8.50	6.47	2.02	5.03	3.87	1.69	1.67	1.10

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	151	195	31	19	7-1	9-2	42-3	1.29	0.21	0.44	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	175	82	180	17	2-3	5-13	13-39	0.47	1.03	0.48	0.30

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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