Tao3-4 at 2023 USPORT Curling Canada University Championships

SKIP
Johnson
Tao

Third
Desmond
Young

Second
Ben
Morin

Lead
Gabriel
Dyck

Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB) finished 3-4 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tao defeated Jake Horgan (Sudbury, ON) 7-5, then went on to lose 8-5 against Sam Mooibroek (Waterloo, ON). Tao responded with a 8-3 win over Kenan Wipf (Calgary, AB). Tao went on to lose 8-4 against Adam McEachren (Halifax, NS). Tao lost 7-6 to Aden Kavanaugh (Halifax, NS) where Tao responded with a 7-3 win over Jamie Stewart (Federicton, NB). Tao went on to lose 10-3 against Owen Purdy (Kingston, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Tao earned 1.125 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 82nd place overall with 42.688 total points. Tao ranks 82nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 42.688 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	29	21	0	0.580	2-4	1-3	1-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	400	288	260	7.20	6.50	0.70	4.65	4.08	1.55	1.60	1.28

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	193	209	63	23	2-0	17-3	40-16	1.08	0.33	0.35	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	207	79	197	28	2-0	2-14	12-47	0.38	0.95	0.50	0.28

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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