CHAMPION: Vukich Wins 2014 USA Junior Men's Championship

SKIP
Jake
Vukich

Third
Evan
McAuley

Second
Luc
Violette

Lead
Kyle
Lorvick

Jake Vukich (Seattle, WA) won 7-5 over Scott Dunnam (Dresher, PA) in the Final of the USA Junior Men's Championship, held January 25 - February 1, 2014 in Seattle, Washington.

Vukich finished 7-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Vukich lost 7-6 to Daniel Dudt (Malvern, PA), then responded with a 14-1 win over Alhrik Schommer (Anchorage, AK). Vukich won 9-3 against Daniel Plys (Duluth, MN). Vukich went on to lose 6-4 against Brandon Scheel (Fargo, ND). Vukich responded with a 10-4 win over Korey Dropkin (Southborough, MA). Vukich won 6-4 against Dunnam, then won 5-4 against Wesley Pedersen (Midland, MI) and 11-3 against Ethan Meyers (Duluth, MN). Vukich won 11-2 against Clay Osterhaus (Dalton, WI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the USA Junior Men's Championship Championship title, Vukich earned 8.000 world rankings points, moving up 75 spots the World Ranking Standings into 115th place overall with 12.250 total points. Vukich ranks 96th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	13	16	0	0.448	0-1	2-3	0-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	241	177	154	7.34	6.39	0.95	4.52	4.32	1.62	1.48	1.16

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	119	132	33	15	5-0	5-2	27-3	1.11	0.28	0.36	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	122	45	121	13	2-0	0-9	8-25	0.37	0.99	0.56	0.25

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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