Defending champions move on to finals

February 1, 2013
Korey and Cory marched their respective teams into tomorrow's gold medal finals after earning wins in the Page 1-2 playoffs tonight at the 2013 USA Curling Junior National Championships in Wayland, Mass.

Cory Christensen (Duluth, Minn.) and teammates Becca Funk (McFarland, Wis.), Anna Bauman (Duluth, Minn.) and Sonja Bauman (Duluth, Minn.) defeated Miranda Solem's High Performance Team for the second time today to move on to the final where Christensen and the Bauman sisters are set to defend the title they won in 2012. Top-seeded Korey Dropkin (Southborough, Mass.) led his team of Thomas Howell (Brick, N.J.), Mark Fenner (Bemidji, Minn.), Alex Fenson (Bemidji, Minn.), and Connor Hoge (Southborough, Mass.) to a 7-2 victory over Scott Dunnam's rink from Pennsylvania to play for gold. Dropkin and Howell won the junior title in 2012 and also teamed up at the inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games.

To read the complete press release, click on the PDF below.

Source: 
USA Curling
Author: 
Terry Kolesar