De Cruz8-1 at 2018 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

Geneva, Switzerland

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

Third
Claudio
Paetz

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Games:	11
Record:	9W - 2L
PF/G:	8.83
PA/G:	5.74
Hammer Efficiency:	0.49
Steal Defense:	0.14
Force Efficiency:	0.65
Steal Efficiency:	0.31

Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI) finished 8-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, De Cruz defeated Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) 8-3, then won 8-6 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR) and 9-4 against Alexander Baumann (Baden-Baden, GER). De Cruz won 8-2 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA), then won 7-5 against Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS) and 10-3 against David Misun (Martin, SVK). De Cruz won 8-5 against Sebastian Wunderer (Kitzbuhel, AUT), then won 9-4 against Kyle Smith (Perth, SCO). De Cruz went on to lose 8-2 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

De Cruz earned 36.846 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Le Gruyere European Curling Championships, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 7th place overall with 520.508 total points. De Cruz ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 232.008 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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