Dropkin Reaches 2023 USA Curling National Championships Semifinals

SKIP
Korey
Dropkin

Third
Andrew
Stopera

Second
Mark
Fenner

Lead
Thomas
Howell

Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) run at the 2023 USA Curling National Championships came to an end in the semifinals with a 8-5 loss to Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN). of the 2023 USA Curling National Championships in Denver, Colorado;

Dropkin finished 4-3 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin defeated Casper 10-7, then went on to lose 9-5 against Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA). Dropkin lost 6-5 to Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN) where Dropkin responded with a 8-1 win over Rich Ruohonen (Chaska, MN). Dropkin won 6-4 against Jason Smith (Nashville, TN). Dropkin went on to lose 6-3 against John Shuster (Duluth, MN). Dropkin responded with a 8-5 win over Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO) in their final qualifying round match.

Dropkin earned 23.375 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the USA Curling National Championships, remaining in 9th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 2.375 after improving upon their best so far this season. Dropkin ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 207.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	55	35	0	0.611	8-5	11-10	2-2	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	685	508	452	7.42	6.60	0.82	4.31	4.26	1.72	1.55	1.43

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	334	381	97	50	14-1	19-4	84-15	1.14	0.29	0.41	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	351	127	355	48	4-12	9-14	15-67	0.36	1.01	0.58	0.23

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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