Teams elbowing for playoff berths at Junior Nationals

January 29, 2013

With 14 draws of action in the books, the standings are starting to separate as teams focus on qualifying for this weekend's playoffs of the 2013 USA Curling Junior National Championships in Wayland, Mass.

Today's games at the Broomstones Curling Club saw Minnesota II's Anthony Wright rink earn its fourth straight victory after starting the tournament 0-2. Wright (Duluth, Minn.) and teammates Will Howieson (Good Thunder, Minn.), Jesse Jaeger (Madison Lake, Minn.) and Wesley Leksell (Duluth, Minn.) defeated their Minnesota counterparts led by Ethan Meyers (Duluth, Minn.), 7-4, in tonight's game to improve to 4-2, which puts them in a four-way tie for second place behind Korey Dropkin's High Performance Team (5-1).

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Source:

USA Curling

Author:

Terry Kolesar