Rooney3-6 at 2023 World Junior Curling Championships

Whitby, Canada

SKIP
Landan
Rooney

Third
Scott
Mitchell

Second
Jacob
Jones

Lead
Austin
Snyder

Games:	9
Record:	3W - 6L
PF/G:	7.04
PA/G:	7.65
Hammer Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Defense:	0.26
Force Efficiency:	0.40
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Landan Rooney (Whitby, CAN) finished 3-6 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Rooney lost 7-2 to Orrin Carson (Dumfries, SCO), droppimg another game, 9-6 to Xueqing Fei (Beijing, CHN). Rooney lost 11-8 to Switzerland's Jan Iseli. Rooney lost 8-6 to Eunbin Kim (Kyungil, KOR) where Rooney responded with a 9-3 win over Serkan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR). Rooney won 9-3 against Lukas Hostmaelingen (Oslo, NOR). Rooney went on to lose 8-4 against Giacomo Colli (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA). Rooney lost 8-2 to Benny Kapp (Fuessen/Oberstdorf , GER) where Rooney responded with a 11-5 win over Ethan Sampson (Chaska, USA) in their final qualifying round match.

Rooney earned 4.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Rooney move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 2.812 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 51st overall with 71.548 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Rooney ranks 52nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 62.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	27	31	0	0.466	3-4	2-7	0-1	0-1	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	472	334	331	7.08	7.01	0.06	4.41	4.28	1.61	1.64	1.31

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	225	250	70	23	3-0	21-1	51-14	1.11	0.31	0.37	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	247	84	261	39	2-7	4-19	9-54	0.34	1.06	0.46	0.24

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