Bear/Oldenburg To Play for Bronze at Southern Mixed Doubles

Madison Bear/Aidan Oldenburg (Chaska, MN) is set to play BriAnna Weldon/Sean Franey (Denver, CO) in the Bronze Medal game at the Southern Mixed Doubles in Charlote, North Carolina, United States. of the Southern Mixed Doubles in Charlote, North Carolina, United States; Bear/Oldenburg lost 9-5 to Taylor Anderson/Ben Richardson (Chaska, MN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the Southern Mixed Doubles in Charlote, North Carolina, United States; and won 9-7 over Emily Schweitzer/Blake Hagberg (Minneapolis, MN) in the quarterfinals. of the Southern Mixed Doubles in Charlote, North Carolina, United States;

Bear/Oldenburg finished 5-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bear/Oldenburg defeated Nicole Bookhout/Dan Wiza (Madison, WI) 9-2, then won 9-3 against Sarah Calcutt/Matthew Kenlan (Charlotte, NC) and 8-4 against Kelly Danahey/Ben Allain (Denver, CO). Bear/Oldenburg won 7-5 against Kirstin Nickel/Gabriel Nickel (Hudson, WI), then won 8-3 against Gloria Chao/Anthony Fowler (Chicago, IL) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Southern Mixed Doubles, Bear/Oldenburg earn 4.250 world rankings points and 1865CDN, remaining in 806th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 10.250 total points. Bear/Oldenburg ranks 97th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	16	8	0	0.667	4-0	1-0	0-0	0-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	171	174	119	10.18	6.96	3.22	5.67	4.33	1.79	1.61	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	76	101	27	0	3-0	9-1	21-2	1.33	0.36	0.43	0.30

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	95	73	92	0	1-5	7-6	12-11	0.77	0.97	0.57	0.46

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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