Ashton/Gira2-2 at 2023 Victoria Mixed Doubles Cash Spiel

Alex Ashton/Kris Gira (Calgary , AB) finished 2-2 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ashton/Gira lost 11-3 to Courtney Woo/Daniel Wenzek (New Westminster, BC), then responded with a 10-0 win over Amanda Chou/Brendon Liu (Taipei City, TPE). Ashton/Gira went on to lose 6-5 against Steph Jackson-Baier/Cameron de Jong (Victoria, BC). Ashton/Gira responded with a 11-7 win over Debbie Dubeau/Bobby Dubeau (Nanaimo, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

Ashton/Gira earned 0.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 9 of the event schedule, Ashton/Gira did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 335th place on the World Ranking Standings with 0.375 total points. Ashton/Gira ranks 520th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	6	15	0	0.286	2-0	1-3	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	140	103	141	7.36	10.07	-2.71	4.71	5.29	1.56	1.91	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	68	68	43	0	3-0	4-5	9-7	1.00	0.63	0.24	0.38

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	72	35	98	0	0-7	1-8	9-11	0.49	1.36	0.46	0.33

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.

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