Leichter3-6 at 2016 USA Men's National Curling Championship

SKIP
Alex
Leichter

Third
Martin
Sather

Second
Nate
Clark

Lead
Ryan
Hallisey

Alex Leichter (Boston, MA) finished 3-6 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Leichter lost 4-3 to Pete Fenson (Blaine, USA), then responded with a 9-3 win over Todd Birr (Blaine, MN). Leichter went on to lose 9-7 against Heath McCormick (New York, NY). Leichter lost 9-3 to John Shuster (Duluth, USA) where Leichter responded with a 7-5 win over Craig Brown (Blaine, USA). Leichter won 7-2 against Hunter Clawson (Baltimore, MD). Leichter went on to lose 8-7 against Brandon Corbett (Rochester, NY). Leichter lost 8-5 to Korey Dropkin (Blaine, USA). Leichter lost 9-2 to Brady Clark (Seattle, WA) in their final qualifying round match.

Leichter earned 4.641 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 118th place overall with 38.012 total points. Leichter ranks 126th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 24.073 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

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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