Stopera5-4 at 2019 World Junior Curling Championships

Chaska, United States

SKIP
Andrew
Stopera

Third
Luc
Violette

Second
Ben
Richardson

Lead
Graem
Fenson

Games:	9
Record:	5W - 4L
PF/G:	7.26
PA/G:	6.79
Hammer Efficiency:	0.41
Steal Defense:	0.29
Force Efficiency:	0.48
Steal Efficiency:	0.36

Andrew Stopera (Chaska, USA) finished 5-4 in the 10 team World Junior Curling Championships qualifying round, held February 16 - 23, 2019 in , . In their opening game, Stopera defeated Tyler Tardi (Langley, CAN) 8-7, then went on to lose 9-8 against Weihaoping Wang (Beijing, CHN). Stopera lost 7-3 to Klaudius Harsch (Fuessen, GER) where Stopera responded with a 7-3 win over Luca Rizzolli (Cembra, ITA). Stopera won 9-5 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Oslo, NOR), then won 7-5 against Daniel Berggren (Sveg, SWE) and 8-3 against Matthew Neilson (Naseby, NZL). Stopera went on to lose 7-6 against Marco Hoesli (Glarus, SUI). Stopera lost 11-5 to Ross Whyte (Dumfries, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

Stopera earned 6.600 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 28 of the event schedule, Stopera did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Stopera ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	5	4	0	0.556	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	84	61	57	7.26	6.79	0.48	4.52	4.05	1.61	1.68	1.43

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	45	44	17	8	0-0	5-1	10-2	0.98	0.38	0.41	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	39	17	40	4	0-2	0-3	3-6	0.44	1.03	0.48	0.36

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