Sampson4-5 at 2023 World Junior Curling Championships

SKIP
Ethan
Sampson

Third
Kevin
Tuma

Second
Coleman
Thurston

Lead
Marius
Kleinas

Ethan Sampson (Chaska, USA) finished 4-5 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sampson defeated Eunbin Kim (Kyungil, KOR) 8-5, then went on to lose 8-5 against Benny Kapp (Fuessen/Oberstdorf , GER). Sampson responded with a 6-5 win over Xueqing Fei (Beijing, CHN). Sampson won 7-3 against Giacomo Colli (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA). Sampson went on to lose 10-8 against Lukas Hostmaelingen (Oslo, NOR). Sampson responded with a 11-4 win over Serkan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR). Sampson went on to lose 8-3 against Switzerland's Jan Iseli. Sampson lost 6-2 to Orrin Carson (Dumfries, SCO). Sampson lost 11-5 to Landan Rooney (Whitby, CAN) in their final qualifying round match.

Sampson earned 6.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Sampson move up 9 spots after posting a net gain of 4.875 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 88th overall with 42.409 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sampson ranks 86th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 38.626 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	22	29	0	0.431	7-4	3-10	2-2	1-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	392	271	288	6.91	7.35	-0.43	4.41	4.16	1.57	1.77	1.43

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	184	195	65	25	3-1	12-7	41-9	1.06	0.35	0.35	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	208	76	223	31	0-8	2-16	19-42	0.37	1.07	0.47	0.25

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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