De Cruz5-4 at 2019 Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

Third
Sven
Michel

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) finished 5-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, De Cruz lost 7-6 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE), droppimg another game, 7-6 to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) where De Cruz responded with a 9-3 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). De Cruz went on to lose 8-4 against Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO). De Cruz responded with a 9-7 win over Wille Makela (Hyvinkaa, FIN). De Cruz won 9-3 against Bartosz Dzikowski (Katowice, POL), then won 10-2 against Mikhail Vaskov (Dmitrov, RUS). De Cruz went on to lose 7-5 against Marc Muskatewitz (Baden Baden, GER). De Cruz responded with a 8-7 win over Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR) in their final qualifying round match.

De Cruz earned 15.978 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 8th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -11.311 after improving upon their best so far this season. De Cruz ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 190.295 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

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)
STONE + STRAW: S02:EP06 - Jason Gunnlaugson

Host John Cullen travels to Thunder Bay, Ontario, for the Tour Challenge to interview Winnipeg's own Jason Gunnlaugson. Though Gunnlaugson has yet to win a... (read more)