Zou6-2 at 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championship

SKIP
De Jia
Zou

Third
Qiang
Zou

Second
Jingtao
Xu

Lead
Zhilin
Shao

De Jia Zou (Harbin, CHN) finished 6-2 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Zou defeated Sean Becker (Naseby, NZL) 8-3, then won 10-5 against Viktor Kim (Almaty, KAZ). Zou went on to lose 8-5 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Zou lost 8-6 to Hugh Millikin (Sydney, AUS) where Zou responded with a 12-2 win over Qatar's Nabeel Alyafei. Zou won 6-5 against Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR), then won 9-4 against Chinese Taipei's Randie Shen and 9-3 against Hong Kong's Jason Chang in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Pacific-Asia Curling Championship, Zou take home 11.756 world rankings points. For week 14 of the event schedule, Zou did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Zou ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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