Weldon/Franey2-5 at USA Curling Mixed Doubles National Championship

BriAnna Weldon/Sean Franey (Denver, CO) finished 2-5 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Weldon/Franey lost 8-4 to Rebecca Hamilton/Matt Hamilton (McFarland, WI), then responded with a 9-5 win over Regan Birr/Todd Birr (Blaine, MN). Weldon/Franey went on to lose 11-6 against Madison Bear/Aidan Oldenburg (Chaska, MN). Weldon/Franey responded with a 8-7 win over Taylor Anderson/Ben Richardson (Chaska, MN). Weldon/Franey went on to lose 7-6 against Ann Podoll/Nathan Parry (Fargo, ND). Weldon/Franey lost 12-5 to Sarah Anderson/Andrew Stopera (Minneapolis, MN). Weldon/Franey lost 9-7 to Aileen Geving/John Shuster (Duluth, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Weldon/Franey earned 3.375 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Weldon/Franey gained 3.376 points improving upon their best 6 events, though dropped 13 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 820thplace overall with 10.626 total points. Weldon/Franey ranks 135th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.626 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	16	14	0	0.533	3-0	1-0	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	208	198	190	9.52	9.13	0.38	5.24	4.76	1.82	1.92	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	101	135	53	0	7-1	12-3	20-10	1.34	0.52	0.39	0.33

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	107	63	137	0	2-7	3-15	10-18	0.59	1.28	0.39	0.38

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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