Fenson6-2 at USA Challenge Round

SKIP
Eric
Fenson

Third
Josh
Bahr

Second
Jon
Chandler

Lead
Mark
Haluptzok

Eric Fenson (Bemidji, MN) finished 6-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Fenson lost 9-2 to Stephen Dropkin (St. Paul, MN), then responded with a 8-7 win over Sam Galey (Seattle, WA). Fenson won 8-5 against Mark Willmert (St. Paul, MN). Fenson went on to lose 7-6 against Alex Leichter (Rochester, NY). Fenson responded with a 11-5 win over Dale Gibbs (St. Paul, MN). Fenson won 8-6 against Owen Sampson (Fargo, ND), then won 6-5 against Dropkin and 10-9 against Todd Birr (Blaine, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Fenson earned 1.500 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the USA Challenge Round, moving up 34 spots the World Ranking Standings into 184th place overall with 4.431 total points. Fenson ranks 150th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.950 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	22	22	0	0.500	8-5	3-9	4-4	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	337	241	238	7.15	7.06	0.09	4.51	4.57	1.59	1.55	0.92

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	171	165	74	16	3-1	13-3	28-10	0.96	0.43	0.28	0.32

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	166	76	164	15	2-1	5-13	8-36	0.46	0.99	0.49	0.31

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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