Smith2-3 at 2018 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena)

St. John's, Newfoundland / Labrador

SKIP
Greg
Smith

Third
Nicholas
Bissonnette

Second
John
Sheppard

Lead
Ian
Withycombe

Games:	5
Record:	2W - 3L
PF/G:	6.67
PA/G:	10.33
Hammer Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Defense:	0.47
Force Efficiency:	0.27
Steal Efficiency:	0.15

Greg Smith (St. John's, NL) finished 2-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Smith lost 7-1 to Stuart Thompson (Dartmouth, NS), then responded with a 6-4 win over Pascal Chouinard (Quebec, QC). Smith went on to lose 7-4 against Steve Allen (Ottawa, ON). Smith responded with a 9-6 win over Martin Ferland (Trois-Rivieres, QC). Smith went on to lose 7-0 against Scott McDonald (Kingston, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Smith earned 4.326 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Smith move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 1.077 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 95th overall with 38.543 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Smith ranks 105th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.547 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

2009: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Jean Gagnon
Gatineau, QC
2010: Serge Reid
Serge Reid, Francois Gionest, Simon Collin, Steeve Villeneuve
Saguenay, QC
2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau/Levis, QC
2012: Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Andrew Gibson
Halifax, NS
2013: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Craig Savill, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2017: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Xiao Ming Xu, Dongxu Jiang, Jia Liang Zang
Harbin, CHN
2018: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Jonathan Beuk, Wesley Forget, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON

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