Live scoring from both the men's and women's challenge rounds can be found at Standings, Men's Challenge Round:Ĭassie Potter (Birchwood Village, MN) 0-1 Peter, Minn.) stole four points in the seventh end to dash the hopes of Kroy Nernberger's team in an eventual 9-2 loss.Īction continues at 7 tonight from both curling clubs as the Challenge Round continues through Sunday. Birr and teammates Greg Romaniuk (Snohomish, Wash.), Doug Pottinger (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Tom O'Connor (Golden Valley, Minn.) and Kevin Birr (St. 2007 national champion Todd Birr (Mankato, Minn.) also improved to 2-1. Unfortunately for the Wight rink, 2010 Nationals qualifiers, Jacobson's team scored a seven-ender on them in last night's action. Matt Hamilton (McFarland, Wis.) picked up a second straight win with an 8-1 defeat of winless Bryan Wight (Canandaigua, N.Y.) thanks to a five-ender in the fifth end. Mike Farbelow (Minneapolis) led his team to a 7-6 win over 2010 Olympian John Benton (St. Three teams tried to keep pace by picking up their second wins. Jacobson and teammates Kevin Deeren (Chicago), Kraig Deeren (Waunakee, Wis.) and Zane Jacobson (Langdon, N.D.) picked up a 9-8 win over Owen Sampson's North Dakota team. Wisconsin's Lori Karst, who competed in the 2006 Olympic Team Trials, led her team to a 7-3 win over Em Good's West Coast contingent representing Seattle's Granite Curling Club.Īt the Men's Challenge Round in Waupaca, Wis., day two of action turned in the same results for the Zach Jacobson rink as yesterday - undefeated. Chrissy Haase (Schenectady, N.Y.) made her skipping debut and found success with a last-rock 9-8 win over Kimberly Wapola's team from Minnesota. Trailing by two points, Potter's team conceded in the 10th end when they ran out of rocks in hopes of forcing an extra end. But, Reiser and teammates Michelle Wagner (Fargo, N.D.), Gabrielle Coleman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ann Drummie (Washington, D.C.) upset 2006 Olympian Cassie Potter, 7-5, after multiple last-rock misses by the 2002 world junior champion Potter resulted in three stolen ends in a row for Reiser's team. junior champion Aileen Sormunen (Duluth, Minn.) got off to a solid start as well with a 10-3 defeat of Nicole Reiser (Mandan, N.D.). The loss dropped Haag's team to 0-2 after an earlier 11-1 loss to Minnesota's Norma O'Leary rink. This match went to the last rock with Lank stealing a point to earn the 6-5 win. In the afternoon draw, they faced another young team - Wisconsin's junior team led by Jenna Haag (Milton, Wis.). Lank's teammates Caitlin Maroldo (Rochester, N.Y.), Jessica Schultz (Richfield, Minn.) and MacKenzie Lank (Lewiston, N.Y.) defeated Amanda Tucker's North Dakota squad, 11-3, in opening round action this morning. national champion Patti Lank (Lewiston, N.Y.) led her team to two victories on the day. (STEVENS POINT, Wis.) - The Women's Challenge Round got underway today from the four-sheet Grand Forks Curling Club to award eight berths to next month's 2011 USA Curling National Championships.įour-time U.S. North Dakota's Jacobson rink on a roll at Men's Challenge Round past champion dominates first day of Women's Challenge