Ruohonen2-4 at 2018 Curling World Cup Suzhou

Fourth
Greg
Persinger

SKIP
Rich
Ruohonen

Second
Sean
Beighton

Lead
Kroy
Nernberger

Rich Ruohonen (Chaska, USA) finished 2-4 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ruohonen defeated Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) 5-3, then won 6-5 against Jia Liang Zang (Harbin, CHN). Ruohonen went on to lose 9-1 against Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR). Ruohonen lost 9-8 to Edin. Ruohonen lost 5-3 to Zang. Ruohonen lost 9-3 to Walstad in their final qualifying round match.

Ruohonen earned 6.307 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 5 of the event schedule, Ruohonen did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 15th place on the World Ranking Standings with 232.850 total points. Ruohonen ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 23.817 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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