CHAMPIONSHIPS
Silver medalists include (back, l-r) Cory Christensen, Sarah Anderson, Taylor Anderson, Madison Bear, Christine McMakin, and Coach Dave Jensen.
Silver medalists include (back, l-r) Korey Dropkin, Tom Howell, Mark Fenner, Alex Fenson, Quinn Evenson, and Coach Wally Henry.
Double silver for Team USA By Terry L. Davis, Editor
onships in Denmark in March. Playing in their final game of junior eligibility,
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Korey Dropkin and his teammates leſt Denmark with hardware aſter earning the silver medal in a 6-4 loss to Scotland. Dropkin and teammates Tom Howell (Bentleyville, Ohio), Mark Fenner (Bemidji, Minn.), Alex Fenson (Bemidji, Minn.), and alternate Quinn Evenson (Duluth, Minn.) fell behind early in the gold-medal game and couldn’t overcome Bruce Mouat’s Scottish rink at the Taarnby Curling Club. Te U.S. team (9-3) was coached by Wally Henry (Beaver Dam, Wis.). “Tat’s not what we came for; we didn’t have
such a good game, especially myself. But, we’re definitely happy and proud to win silver,” said Dropkin, 21, who finally reached the podium in his fourth attempt. “It’s just the little things that make the difference in a World final and Scot- land was on their game. Tey shot the lights out, and we just had a rough game.” Playing in her fiſth world championship,
Christensen finally got to step on the podium aſter a well-fought battle against Canada that re- sulted in a silver finish for the American ladies. It wasn’t the top of the podium but a dream
come true nonetheless for Christensen and teammates Sarah Anderson (Broomall, Pa.), Taylor Anderson (Broomall, Pa.), Madison Bear (Portage, Wis.), and alternate Christine McMa- kin (St. Paul, Minn.) aſter a 7-4 loss to Canada’s Mary Fay. Te team was coached by Dave Jensen (Bismarck, N.D.). More importantly for the U.S. junior women’s program, it’s the first World Ju- niors medal since 2010 and best finish since also
eam USA, led by Cory Christensen and Korey Dropkin, shined at the 2016 VoIP Defender World Junior Champi-
Canada (Mary Fay)
USA (Cory Christensen) Korea (Min Ji Kim)
2016 World Junior Women’s Championship Round robin standings: 9-0 7-2 7-2
Hungary (Dorottya Palancsa) 5-4 Sweden (Terese Westman) 5-4 Switzerland (Elena Stern) Russia (Uliana Vasilyeva) Turkey (Dilsat Yildiz)
Scotland (Sophie Jackson) Japan (Ayano Tsuchiya)
Page 1-2 playoff: USA
*Canada
Page 3-4 playoff: Hungary *Korea
Semifinal: Hungary *Canada
*Hungary
Gold-medal game: Canada *USA
*last rock in first end
earning silver in 2003. “We’re pretty happy with silver. We just didn’t
come out shooting as well as we should have,” said Christensen, 21. “We had a few key misses and Canada capitalized and they played awe- some.” Christensen, just like her counterpart, Fay,
made her World Juniors debut at age 17. Each year had been an upward progression for Chris- tensen, who along with the Anderson twins, ages out of junior competition this season. “It’s been a great journey to be on. I’m so excit-
ed when I think back to 2012 and where we were and the progress that we’ve made since then, I
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020 101 020 2 – 8 103 010 101 0 – 7
010 203 030 3 –12 101 020 403 0 –11
020 000 02x x – 4 102 113 10x x – 9
Bronze-medal game: Korea
021 102 101 x – 8 100 020 010 x – 4
002 002 021 x – 7 010 100 200 x – 4
2016 World Junior Men’s Championship Round robin standings:
USA (Korey Dropkin) Scotland (Bruce Mouat)
Canada (Matthew Dunstone) Russia (Timur Gadzhikhanov)
8-1 7-2 7-2
Switzerland (Yannick Schwaller) 6-3 Norway (Magnus Ramsfell) Sweden (Rasmus Wrana)
5-4 5-4 3-6
Denmark (Tobias Tune Jacobsen) 2-7 Turkey (Ugurcan Karagoz) Korea (Yu Jin Seong)
2-7 0-9
Page 1-2 playoff: Scotland *USA
Page 3-4 playoff: *Canada
Switzerland
Semifinal: *USA
Switzerland *Switzerland
Gold-medal game: USA
*Scotland *last rock in first end
feel it’s pretty impressive,” said Christensen, 21, who led her team to the U.S. junior national title in January and a bronze-medal finish at the 2016 Women’s National Championship two weeks lat- er. “Now we’re going onto women’s curling and keep doing what we’re doing.” Te two silver medals earned by the U.S. teams
from this event marks the best-ever finish at the World Junior Championships for the American program. In fact, this was the first time since 1994 that both U.S. teams made the playoffs. Te 2017 World Junior Championships will be the test event for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games and take place Feb. 16-26 in South Korea. Q
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Bronze-medal game: Canada
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001 010 010 1 – 4 020 201 001 0 – 6
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