Ruohonen1-3 at Stu Sells Oakville Tankard

SKIP
Rich
Ruohonen

Third
Jason
Smith

Second
Samuel
Strouse

Lead
Jared
Allen

Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) finished 1-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ruohonen lost 4-3 to Jordan McNamara (Ottawa, ON), then responded with a 7-2 win over Warren Smith (Collingwood, ON). Ruohonen went on to lose 6-4 against Matthew Manuel (Halifax, NS). Ruohonen lost 7-3 to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Ruohonen earned 2.063 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 106th place overall with 29.438 total points. Ruohonen ranks 90th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.063 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	29	0	0.491	2-7	2-5	0-3	0-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	411	299	289	7.27	7.03	0.24	4.53	4.45	1.61	1.58	1.02

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	209	223	92	16	8-1	10-5	43-17	1.07	0.44	0.32	0.30

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	202	76	197	26	0-5	6-14	9-31	0.38	0.98	0.59	0.27

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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