CHAMPION: Pierce Wins 2012 Valley First Crown of Curling

New Westminster, British Columbia

SKIP
Brent
Pierce

Third
Jeff
Richard

Second
Kevin
Recksiedler

Lead
Grant
Dezura

Games:	5
Record:	5W - 0L
PF/G:	9.44
PA/G:	5.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Defense:	0.06
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.32

Brent Pierce (New Westminster, BC) won 7-6 over Jamie King (Edmonton, AB) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Pierce won 7-3 over Scott DeCap (Kamloops, BC) in the semifinals of the 2012 Valley First Crown of Curling in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada; and won 6-5 over Trevor Perepolkin (British Columbia) in the quarterfinals.

Pierce finished 2-0 in the 22 team Valley First Crown of Curling qualifying round, held October 19 - 22, 2012 at the Kamloops Curling Club in Kamloops, Canada. In their opening game, Pierce defeated Ken Watson (Surrey, BC) 7-1, then won 7-3 against Steve Waatainen (Nanaimo, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Valley First Crown of Curling Championship title, Pierce earned 5.500 world rankings points along with the $7,500CDN first prize cheque, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 25th place overall with 58.970 total points. Pierce ranks 21st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 20.710 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2013	5	0	0	1.000	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2013	36	34	18	9.44	5.00	4.44	5.28	3.06	1.79	1.64	1.67

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2013	17	26	1	3	1-0	3-0	4-0	1.53	0.06	0.57	0.06

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2013	19	8	17	3	0-1	0-0	2-4	0.42	0.89	0.50	0.32

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