Persinger4-6 at 2021 US Olympic Team Trials: Curling

SKIP
Greg
Persinger

Third
Alex
Leichter

Second
Ben
Richardson

Lead
Craig
Brown

Greg Persinger (Fairbanks, AK) finished 4-6 in the 6-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Persinger defeated Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) 11-7, then won 10-4 against Jed Brundidge (East St. Paul, MN). Persinger went on to lose 9-7 against Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN). Persinger lost 8-4 to John Shuster (Chaska, MN) where Persinger responded with a 8-7 win over Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA). Persinger won 8-2 against Brundidge. Persinger went on to lose 8-2 against Dropkin. Persinger lost 8-4 to Shuster. Persinger lost 11-4 to Dunnam. Persinger lost 7-6 to Ruohonen in their final qualifying round match.

Persinger earned 5.344 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 51st place overall with 70.401 total points. Persinger ranks 58th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 32.737 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	17	13	0	0.567	2-3	5-5	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	235	195	164	8.30	6.98	1.32	4.68	4.68	1.77	1.49	0.64

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	112	145	36	5	4-0	13-2	26-6	1.29	0.32	0.40	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	123	50	128	10	0-2	6-5	9-26	0.41	1.04	0.61	0.24

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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