Ruohonen Reaches CURVE US Open of Curling

SKIP
Rich
Ruohonen

Third
Jason
Smith

Second
Samuel
Strouse

Lead
Jared
Allen

Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) run at the CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships came to an end in the semifinals with a 5-4 loss to Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN). of the CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships in Blaine, Minnesota, United States; Ruohonen advanced through the quarterfinals with a 10-5 win over Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA). of the CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships in Blaine, Minnesota, United States;

Ruohonen finished 3-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ruohonen defeated Nicholas Cenzalli (Falmouth, MA) 9-2, then went on to lose 6-5 against Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN). Ruohonen responded with a 7-3 win over Wesley Wendling (Wausau, WI). Ruohonen won 6-2 against Connor Kauffman (Blaine, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Ruohonen earned 8.500 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships, moving up 15 spots the World Ranking Standings into 94th place overall with 37.938 total points. Ruohonen ranks 58th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.563 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

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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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