Brown Reaches 2016 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling Quarters

SKIP
Craig
Brown

Third
Kroy
Nernberger

Second
Jason
Smith

Lead
Sean
Beighton

Craig Brown (Blaine, MN) qualified for the 2016 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 7-3 against William Lyburn (Winnipeg, MB).

Brown finished 3-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brown defeated Arizona's Mike Siggins 8-3, then went on to lose 7-4 against Rui Liu (HARBIN, CHN). Brown responded with a 5-3 win over Pete Fenson (Bemidji, MN). Brown went on to lose 6-4 against Adam Casey (Regina, SK). Brown responded with a 5-2 win over Nicholas Connolly (Seattle, WA) in their final qualifying round match.

Brown earned 11.745 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling. Brown move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 7.435 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 23rd overall with 240.259 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Brown ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 117.361 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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