Jeong Runner-Up at 2023 Pan-Continental Championships

SKIP
ByeongJin
Jeong

Third
JeongJae
Lee

Second
MinWoo
Kim

Lead
Taehwan
Kim

ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR) lost 11-3 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) in the Final of the Pan-Continental Championships, held October 31 - November 5, 2022 in Calgary, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Jeong won 9-6 over Korey Dropkin (Duluth, USA) in the semifinals of the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada;

Jeong finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jeong defeated Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) 7-5, then won 10-3 against Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL) and 10-6 against Dropkin. Jeong went on to lose 11-3 against Gushue. Jeong responded with a 11-5 win over Chinese Taipei's Randie Shen. Jeong won 10-1 against Marcelo Mello (Sao Paolo, BRA), then won 9-4 against Jay Merchant (Melbourne, AUS) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Pan-Continental Championships, Jeong take home 27.500 world rankings points. Jeong move up 26 spots after posting a net gain of 23.934 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 36th overall with 86.635 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Jeong ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 72.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	53	30	0	0.639	6-8	8-6	3-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	613	507	426	8.27	6.95	1.32	4.62	4.21	1.79	1.65	1.17

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	319	362	103	44	13-0	31-5	56-18	1.13	0.32	0.36	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	294	145	323	28	6-10	10-25	19-56	0.49	1.10	0.50	0.28

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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