Brown Runner-Up at 2016 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling

SKIP
Craig
Brown

Third
Kroy
Nernberger

Second
Jared
Zezel

Lead
Sean
Beighton

Craig Brown (Blaine, USA) lost 7-3 to John Epping (Toronto, ON) in the Final of the ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling, held January 1 - 4, 2016 at the Four Seasons Curling Club in Blaine, United States. To advance to the championship game, Brown won 7-3 over Charley Thomas (Calgary, AB) in the semifinals of the 2016 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling in Blaine, Minnesota, United States; and won 4-3 over Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2016 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling in Blaine, Minnesota, United States;

Brown finished 2-2 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brown defeated Todd Birr (Blaine, MN) 7-1, then went on to lose 4-2 against Alex Forrest (Winnipeg, MB). Brown lost 5-3 to Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK) where Brown responded with a 5-4 win over Colin Koivula (Thunder Bay, NONT) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling, Brown take home 38.194 world rankings points along with the $6,949CDN prize, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 25th place overall with 172.579 total points. Brown ranks 31st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 90.809 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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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