Weldon/Franey3-3 at 2022 USA Curling Mixed Doubles National Championship

BriAnna Weldon/Sean Franey (Oakland, CA) finished 3-3 in the 26-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Weldon/Franey lost 11-6 to Becca Wood/Chris Bond (Denver, CO), then responded with a 7-6 win over Ann Podoll/Nathan Parry (Fargo, ND). Weldon/Franey went on to lose 9-1 against Kim Rhyme/Jason Smith (St. Paul, MN). Weldon/Franey responded with a 11-4 win over Emily Schweitzer/Blake Hagberg (St. Paul, MN). Weldon/Franey won 6-3 against Christine McMakin/Riley Fenson (Bemidji, MN) to advance to a C-Qualifier game where they lost 9-5 against Rhyme/Smith in their final qualifying round match.

Weldon/Franey earned 6.086 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Weldon/Franey gained 3.043 points improving upon their best 6 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 778thplace overall with 8.840 total points. Weldon/Franey ranks 98th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 17.680 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	7	0	0	1.000	2-0	2-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	45	52	27	11.56	6.00	5.56	6.44	3.56	1.79	1.69	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	16	29	4	0	3-0	2-0	3-1	1.81	0.25	0.50	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	29	23	23	0	0-1	1-1	5-5	0.79	0.79	0.46	0.55

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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