Wendling Reaches 2022 USA Curling Junior Mens National Championship Semifinals

SKIP
Wesley
Wendling

Third
John
Wilkerson

Second
Jackson
Armstrong

Lead
Christopher
Kirsch

Wesley Wendling (Wausau, WI) run at the 2022 USA Curling Junior Mens National Championship came to an end in the semifinals with a 5-4 loss to Ethan Sampson (Fargo, ND). of the 2022 USA Curling Junior Mens National Championship in Stevens Point, Wisconsin;

Wendling finished 5-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Wendling defeated Jaime Vidaurrazaga (Wayland, MA) 20-4, then won 13-3 against Jimmy Evans (Fairbanks, AK) and 10-1 against Zachary Brenden (Bismarck, ND). Wendling won 7-1 against Bowen Zheng (Seattle, WA), then won 8-3 against Nicholas Cenzalli (Wayland, MA). Wendling went on to lose 9-3 against Connor Kauffman (Blaine, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Wendling earned 8.479 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the USA Curling Junior Mens National Championship, moving up 116 spots the World Ranking Standings into 182nd place overall with 11.171 total points. Wendling ranks 182nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 11.171 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	13	15	0	0.464	0-0	1-3	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	228	195	169	8.55	7.41	1.14	4.78	4.43	1.79	1.67	0.79

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	111	134	48	9	8-1	7-3	19-7	1.21	0.43	0.33	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	117	61	121	9	1-2	5-9	8-27	0.52	1.03	0.45	0.33

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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