Stopera3-6 at 2019 Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade

SKIP
Andrew
Stopera

Third
Luc
Violette

Second
Alex
Fenson

Lead
Graem
Fenson

Andrew Stopera (Chaska, USA) finished 3-6 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Stopera defeated Ross Whyte (Dumfries, UK) 8-2, then went on to lose 10-3 against Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI). Stopera lost 13-8 to Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, CAN). Stopera lost 6-5 to Cheng Wei Hu (Beijing, CHN). Stopera lost 8-5 to Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE) where Stopera responded with a 9-6 win over Magnus Ramsfjell (Oslo, NOR). Stopera won 8-5 against Aleksandr Bystrov (St. Petersburg, RUS). Stopera went on to lose 7-4 against JeongJae Lee (Seoul, KOR). Stopera lost 12-5 to Jaroslav Vedral (Prague, CZE) in their final qualifying round match.

Stopera earned 2.954 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Stopera move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 1.616 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 58th overall with 72.429 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Stopera ranks 58th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 72.429 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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