Ruohonen Runner-Up at 2021 Atkins Curling Supplies Classic

SKIP
Rich
Ruohonen

Third
Andrew
Stopera

Second
Colin
Hufman

Lead
Kroy
Nernberger

Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) lost 6-1 to Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Atkins Curling Supplies Classic, held October 1 - 3, 2021 at the Assiniboine Memorial Curling Club in Winnipeg, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Ruohonen won 6-2 over Pat Simmons (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2021 Atkins Curling Supplies Classic in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; and won 7-1 over Kyle McCannell (Winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2021 Atkins Curling Supplies Classic in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;

Ruohonen finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ruohonen lost 7-4 to Sean Grassie (Winnipeg, MB), then responded with a 8-3 win over Steen Sigurdson (Winnipeg, MB). Ruohonen won 10-4 against Zachary Wasylik (Winnipeg, MB), then won 8-0 against Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Atkins Curling Supplies Classic, Ruohonen take home 21.848 world rankings points along with the $1,500CDN prize. Ruohonen move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 6.984 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 14th overall with 149.271 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ruohonen ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 45.458 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	29	14	0	0.674	11-5	8-6	8-2	2-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	326	277	211	8.50	6.47	2.02	5.03	3.87	1.69	1.67	1.10

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	151	195	31	19	7-1	9-2	42-3	1.29	0.21	0.44	0.13

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	175	82	180	17	2-3	5-13	13-39	0.47	1.03	0.48	0.30

2022: Zachary Wasylik
Zachary Wasylik, Jack Hykaway, Joshua Harding, Graham Normand
Winnipeg, MB
2021: Braden Calvert
Braden Calvert, Kyle Kurz, Ian McMillan, Rob Gordon
Winnipeg, MB
2019: Braden Calvert
Braden Calvert, Kyle Kurz, Ian McMillan, Rob Gordon, Justin Richter
Winnipeg, MB
2018: Corey Chambers
Corey Chambers, Julien Leduc, Devon Wiebe, Stuart Shiells
Winnipeg, MB
2017: David Bohn
David Bohn, Justin Richter, Tyler Forrest, Bryce J. McEwen
Winnipeg, MB

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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