Higgs3-1 at Ontario Tankard

Ottawa, Ontario

Fourth
Mike
McLean

SKIP
Jake
Higgs

Second
Kevin
Lagerquist

Lead
Nathan
Crawford

Games:	4
Record:	3W - 1L
PF/G:	7.58
PA/G:	5.45
Hammer Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.64
Steal Efficiency:	0.14

Jake Higgs (Ottawa, ON) finished 3-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Higgs defeated J.P. Lachance (Ottawa, ON) 7-4, then won 8-1 against Colin Dow (Carp, ON). Higgs went on to lose 9-5 against Greg Balsdon (Kingston, ON). Higgs responded with a 5-4 win over Willie Jeffries (Ottawa, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Ontario Tankard - Region 1, Higgs take home 7.838 world rankings points, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 73rd place overall with 65.312 total points. Higgs ranks 69th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 44.891 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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