CHAMPION: Dunstone Wins 2016 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling

Winnipeg, Manitoba

SKIP
Matt
Dunstone

Third
Alex
Forrest

Second
Ian
McMillan

Lead
Connor
Njegovan

Matt Dunstone (Winnipeg, MB) won 7-2 over William Lyburn (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Dunstone won 6-4 over Adam Casey (Regina, SK) in the semifinals of the 2016 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling in Blaine, Minnesota, United States; and won 6-4 over Brady Clark (Seattle, WA) in the quarterfinals. of the 2016 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling in Blaine, Minnesota, United States;

Dunstone finished 3-2 in the 16 team ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling qualifying round, held December 30 - January 2, 2017 at the Four Seasons Curling Club in Blaine, United States. In their opening game, Dunstone lost 6-5 to Mike Farbelow (St. Paul, MN), then responded with a 6-4 win over Cameron Rittenour (Sioux Falls, SD). Dunstone won 6-2 against Nicholas Connolly (Seattle, WA). Dunstone went on to lose 8-2 against Rui Liu (HARBIN, CHN). Dunstone responded with a 6-2 win over Farbelow in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling Championship title, Dunstone earned 27.406 world rankings points along with the $6,722CDN first prize cheque. Dunstone move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 23.546 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 20th overall with 262.912 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Dunstone ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 160.421 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	6	2	0	0.750	1-1	2-1	0-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	55	44	32	8.00	5.82	2.18	4.73	3.82	1.69	1.52	1.45

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	24	36	2	3	1-0	3-0	8-0	1.50	0.08	0.57	0.08

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	31	8	30	5	0-1	0-2	1-3	0.26	0.97	0.68	0.23

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2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
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Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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