CHAMPION: Dropkin Wins 2025 Curling Stadium Martensville International

Duluth, Minnesota

SKIP
Korey
Dropkin

Third
Andrew
Stopera

Second
Mark
Fenner

Lead
Thomas
Howell

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	9.22
PA/G:	5.49
Hammer Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.34

Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) won 6-4 over Scott Howard (Navan, ON) in the Final of the Curling Stadium Martensville International, held March 14 - 17, 2025 at the Martensville Curling Club in Martensville, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Dropkin won 7-3 over Jordon McDonald (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2025 Curling Stadium Martensville International in Martensville, Saskatchewan, Canada; and won 7-1 over Dustin Kalthoff (Saskatoon, SK) in the quarterfinals. of the 2025 Curling Stadium Martensville International in Martensville, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Dropkin finished 3-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin defeated Steve Laycock (Swift Current, SK) 7-4, then won 5-4 against Sam Mooibroek (Whitby, ON). Dropkin went on to lose 7-5 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). Dropkin responded with a 10-5 win over Hyojun Kim (Uiseong, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Curling Stadium Martensville International Championship title, Dropkin earned 33.750 world rankings points along with the $8,000CDN first prize cheque. Dropkin move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 21 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 11th overall with 212.500 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Dropkin ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 212.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	52	41	0	0.559	13-6	9-6	5-4	2-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	694	508	453	7.32	6.53	0.79	4.45	4.05	1.64	1.61	1.50

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	336	379	78	54	10-1	23-2	77-11	1.13	0.23	0.39	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	358	129	375	50	3-7	14-21	7-88	0.36	1.05	0.48	0.24

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