2014 U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM TRIALS
Women's Results Erika Brown
Allison Pottinger Cassie Potter
Courtney George
Double round robin standings: 4-2 4-2 2-4 2-4
Men's Results
John Shuster Pete Fenson
Heath McCormick Tyler George Brady Clark
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that want this so bad and we made it to the finals again. To win is just incredible. I don’t know how else you can say it. I’m very honored to have the chance to play and certainly with this team the guys have worked so hard. It’s an incredible ex- perience and I’m very happy.” Fenson and teammates Shawn Rojeski (Ch-
isholm, Minn.), Joe Polo (Duluth, Minn.), and Ryan Brunt (Portage, Wis.) struggled to read the ice and quickly fell into a hole that kept sinking deeper. “First off, we weren’t real sharp in the begin-
ning of the game,” said Fenson, who skipped Team USA in 2006 to its only Olympic medal in curling. “We got caught by a change in the third end out on the wing and we just missed too many draws over there. Tey got a couple of rocks in good spots toward the end of the end and we re- ally didn’t have anywhere to go. We got caught and mine sailed a little bit on the last one [fourth end]. Tat’s pretty much the game.” In the first end, Fenson missed a runback in
an effort to remove the Shuster stone in the top of the four-foot. Shuster answered with a take- out to put two stones in scoring position. Fenson converted the runback on his second attempt but couldn’t remove both and Shuster was leſt with a takeout for two to get things started offensively. With the last rock advantage in the second
end, Fenson was forced to hit for one. A couple of half shots in the third end leſt Shuster sitting with three rocks in scoring position when Rojes- ki threw his second stone. Rojeski, however, was heavy with his draw and Shuster swept it out the back of the house. Fenson’s team struggled to read the ice properly throughout the third end as they worked with a track of ice on the far side of the sheet. Shuster was able to find the right weight with his first stone and drew in a fourth rock. Fenson was heavy again with his second
stone and Shuster made a takeout for five points. Te fourth end didn’t shape up any better for
Team Fenson as Shuster made a takeout and had four stones in the house compared to zero for the Bemidji skip. Even worse, the path to the four-foot was well blocked. Fenson tried to draw through a port into the four-foot but the rock was heavy and Shuster stole four points. Team Fen- son offered the handshakes to end the match. “Tat’s curling and that happens,” Shuster
said about the scoreboard. “When you get behind in curling or start pressing it a little bit, that is something that can absolutely happen,” Shuster said about the lopsided final score. "It’s unfortu- nate for those guys and for TV that today was one of those but that seriously is the sport.” Te Olympic Qualifier gets underway Dec. 10
at the BLZ Arena in Fuessen, Germany. Team USA will compete against the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Korea, Japan, and New Zealand for the final two berths to the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Te teams will compete in a single round robin with the top three teams moving on to the playoffs. Te top two teams will meet in the first playoff game with the winner qualifying for Sochi. Te losing side will play the third seeded playoff team with the winner ad- vancing to the Olympic Games. Curling was first a medal sport at the Olympic
Winter Games in 1924 but was not again until 1998. Te U.S. has won just one medal in curling at the Olympic Games – bronze in 2006. If the team qualifies for Sochi, it will be the
third Olympic experience for Shuster (2010, 2006), second for Isaacson, who was on the 2010 team; and first appearance for both Zezel and Landsteiner. Te team is coached by Tim Muller (Hibbing,
Minn.) and Craig Brown (Madison, Wis.) has been added as the team's alternate. n
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Double round robin standings: 6-2 5-3 4-4 4-4 1-7
Playoffs, best of three format:
Women's Playoff Game #1: *Brown
Pottinger
201 000 301 0 – 7 010 010 020 1 – 5
Women's Playoff Game #2: *Brown
Pottinger
Men's Playoff Game #1: *Shuster Fenson
020 201 020 1 – 8 101 020 102 0 – 7
200 104 100 01 – 9 020 010 022 10 – 8
Men's Playoff Game #2: Shuster *Fenson
Men's Playoff Game #3: *Shuster Fenson
*last rock in first end
020 100 000 10 – 4 101 010 010 01 – 5
205 4xx xxx x – 11 010 0xx xxx x – 1
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