Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI) lost
8-2 to
Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) in the Final of the Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena), held October 19 - 22, 2017 at the Buckingham Curling Club in Buckingham, Canada. To advance to the championship game, De Cruz won
8-1 over
Codey Maus (London, ON) in the semifinals of the 2017 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena) in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada; and won
7-2 over
Greg Balsdon (Kingston, ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2017 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena) in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada;
De Cruz finished 4-2 in the 28-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, De Cruz defeated
Michael Fournier (Montreal, QC) 4-3, then went on to lose
3-2 against
Stuart Thompson (Dartmouth, NS). De Cruz lost
5-2 to
Martin Ferland (Levis, QC) where De Cruz responded with a
5-3 win over
Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). De Cruz won
6-5 against
Thompson, then won
3-2 against
Heath McCormick (Blaine, USA) in their final qualifying round match.
With their runner-up finish at the Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena), De Cruz take home
37.573 world rankings points along with the $7,000CDN prize, moving up 1 spots the
World Ranking Standings into 8th place overall with
414.265 total points. De Cruz ranks 9th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
125.765 points earned so far this season.
