Dropkin7-3 at 2021 US Olympic Team Trials: Curling

SKIP
Korey
Dropkin

Third
Joe
Polo

Second
Mark
Fenner

Lead
Thomas
Howell

Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) finished 7-3 in the 6-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin lost 9-5 to Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA), then responded with a 7-4 win over Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN). Dropkin won 9-7 against Greg Persinger (Fairbanks, AK), then won 6-5 against Jed Brundidge (East St. Paul, MN). Dropkin went on to lose 8-7 against John Shuster (Chaska, MN). Dropkin lost 11-8 to Ruohonen where Dropkin responded with a 8-2 win over Persinger. Dropkin won 7-2 against Brundidge, then won 6-1 against Shuster and 6-3 against Dunnam in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the US Olympic Team Trials: Curling, Dropkin take home 19.594 world rankings points, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 19th place overall with 163.458 total points. Dropkin ranks 32nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 55.738 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	28	20	0	0.583	13-6	6-7	1-2	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	400	285	252	7.13	6.30	0.83	4.50	4.08	1.58	1.55	1.43

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	197	211	49	32	4-0	12-1	48-8	1.07	0.25	0.39	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	203	74	203	25	0-5	5-11	10-39	0.36	1.00	0.56	0.27

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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