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rocket exhaust 10] Always keep your ice scraper’s battery properly charged so


that if all else fails, you can tilt the machine up and drive the razor sharp blade right through an oncoming zombie’s decaying fl esh. 9] If you are selecting a new teammate and fi nd a couple candi-


Team USA (l-r): Cory Christensen, Sarah Anderson, Mackenzie Lank, Jenna Haag, and Taylor Anderson.


Photo by Chad Carlson


dates with similar shotmaking percentages for both draws and take- outs, choose the one who is statistically better at making shots with an automatic weapon. 8] Tether some small woodland creatures around the perimeter


of your ice house before each match— these critters will eff ectively sidetrack any zombies who happen to burst in and give you suffi - cient time to fi nish your shot before retreating to the relative safety of the clubhouse. 7] Draping zombie intestines over your body may camoufl age you


from the “walking dead,” but it will also make you less than an ideal teammate— employ this measure only as a last resort. 6] If your own icemaking equipment fails during a crucial com-


petition and you need to “borrow” ice from a nearby facility run by some inhospitable curlers, take along a military tank or some other suitable armored fi ghting vehicle in order to more fully impress the locals with the importance of submitting to your demands. 5] When games are contested using countdown clocks, make sure


Team USA (l-r): Ethan Meyers, Quinn Evenson, Steven Szemple, and William Pryor.


Photo by Chad Carlson


enough to move the HP rock into scoring position. Evenson’s guard attempt over-curled, leaving a path to the four-foot open for Howell’s second attempt. T at opening was all Howell needed to come through the port and tap out the Minnesota stone to leave four red HP rocks in scoring position creating a wall above the button. Meyers made a takeout and tucked his stone perfectly into the nest of rocks to leave just one HP stone in scoring position. Both skips then guarded with Dropkin attempting a diffi cult angle raise with the fi nal stone that didn’t curl in enough to score two. In contrast to the cluttered 10th


, a double peel by Szemple kept the extra end


relatively open. Hoping to steal, the HP team put up guards and the Minnesota boys played the peels. A guard got leſt up late in the end and Dropkin used his fi rst stone to play a tap on the stone Evenson placed in the house behind it. Minnesota still had shot stone so Meyers used his fi rst shot to try to draw down to it and cover the button. His stone come up short of the intended target and remained in the top of the eight foot. Dropkin used his team’s fi nal shot of the game to attempt the double takeout but he only removed one and Minnesota became the new U.S. junior national champions. “It’s something I’ve dreamed about for a really long time,” Meyers said. “We


defi nitely are looking forward to it [World Juniors]. Just making it to the fi nal felt like the big game for us.” Curtis Cup for Sportsmanship recipients: North Dakota: Abigayle Lindgren (Grand Forks, N.D.), Katie Sigurdson


the offi cials factor in an appropriate amount of “dead time” (no pun intended) that will allow both teams to deal with any delay caused by “zombie interactions.” 4] No matter how tempting a bonspiel invitation may appear, you


should seriously think twice about entering your team if it happens to come from a club located in some place with a name like “Wood- bury” or “Terminus.” 3] If your icemaker runs out of paint while installing the circles,


remind him that zombie blood from a fresh “kill” can always be used as a handy emergency substitute. 2] Master the aggressive game by learning to play off ense early


and oſt en— blowing your opponent off the sheet quickly means that much less time spent on the ice exposed to a potential attack by the “undead.” 1] Deliberately releasing reanimated corpses upon the ice fi eld for


the express purpose of distracting the opposition is absolutely for- bidden and should result in immediate forfeiture of the game by the off ending team, along with subsequent devourment by said zombies where practicable.


(Grand Forks, N.D.), Emily Lindgren (Grand Forks, N.D.), Kelsey Colwell (Far- go, N.D.), Coach Dave Jensen (Bismarck, N.D.) Wisconsin 1: Cody Falk (Portage, Wis.), Rob Shlimovitz (Portage, Wis.), Ben


Miller (Wausau, Wis.), Ben Vorpahl (Portage, Wis.), Alex Vorpahl (Portage, Wis.) Katie Beck Memorial Award: Naimy Schommer (Fairbanks, Alaska)


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