McCarville Runner-Up at 2018 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling

Thunder Bay, Northern Ontario

SKIP
Mike
McCarville

Third
Jordan
Potter

Second
Zach
Warkentin

Lead
Travis
Potter

Games:	7
Record:	5W - 2L
PF/G:	6.61
PA/G:	6.25
Hammer Efficiency:	0.52
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Efficiency:	0.12

Mike McCarville (Thunder Bay, NONT) lost 8-7 to SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR) in the Final Advancing directly to the semifinals, McCarville won 6-5 over Scott Dunnam () to advance to the championship game. of the 2018 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling in Blaine, Minnesota, United States; of the 2018 ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling in Blaine, Minnesota, United States;

McCarville finished 4-1 in the 11 team ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling qualifying round, held December 28 - 31, 2018 at the Four Seasons Curling Club in Blaine, United States. In their opening game, McCarville defeated Rich Ruohonen (Chaska, USA) 6-5, then won 3-2 against Dominik Maerki (Minneapolis, MN) and 5-4 against Jed Brundidge (). McCarville went on to lose 8-5 against Dunnam. McCarville responded with a 5-3 win over Kelly Marnoch () in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the ASHAM U.S. Open of Curling, McCarville take home 13.934 world rankings points along with the $4,644CDN prize, moving up 452 spots the World Ranking Standings into 199th place overall with 13.934 total points. McCarville ranks 172nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.934 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	5	2	0	0.714	1-0	0-0	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	56	37	35	6.61	6.25	0.36	3.93	3.75	1.68	1.67	2.32

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	30	34	5	7	0-0	3-0	9-1	1.13	0.17	0.52	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	26	3	30	6	0-0	0-2	0-9	0.12	1.15	0.35	0.12

2018: SooHyuk Kim
SooHyuk 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

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