Ruohonen6-4 at 2021 US Olympic Team Trials: Curling

SKIP
Rich
Ruohonen

Third
Andrew
Stopera

Second
Colin
Hufman

Lead
Kroy
Nernberger

Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) finished 6-4 in the 6-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ruohonen lost 11-7 to Greg Persinger (Fairbanks, AK), droppimg another game, 7-4 to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN). Ruohonen lost 9-5 to John Shuster (Chaska, MN) where Ruohonen responded with a 8-7 win over Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA). Ruohonen won 5-2 against Jed Brundidge (East St. Paul, MN), then won 11-8 against Dropkin. Ruohonen went on to lose 9-5 against Shuster. Ruohonen responded with a 7-6 win over Dunnam. Ruohonen won 6-5 against Brundidge, then won 7-6 against Persinger in their final qualifying round match.

Ruohonen earned 8.016 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 17 of the event schedule, Ruohonen did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 18th place on the World Ranking Standings with 164.135 total points. Ruohonen ranks 27th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 60.322 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

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