De Cruz Reaches 2018 Oakville Fall Classic Semifinals

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

Third
Sven
Michel

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) run at the 2018 Oakville Fall Classic came to an end in the semifinals with a 7-6 loss to Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN). of the 2018 Oakville Fall Classic in Oakville, Ontario, Canada; De Cruz advanced through the quarterfinals with a 7-5 win over Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI).

De Cruz finished 4-0 in the 21-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, De Cruz defeated Ross Whyte (Dumfries, SCO) 8-2, then won 11-1 against Xiu Yue Ma (Beijing, CHN) and 6-1 against Alexey Timofeev (St. Petersburg, RUS). De Cruz won 7-6 against Wayne Tuck Jr. (Strathroy, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

De Cruz earned 23.817 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Oakville Fall Classic, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 5th place overall with 326.117 total points. De Cruz ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 53.222 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

2019: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2018: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2016: Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Kyle Waddell, Cameron Smith
Stirling, SCO
2015: Codey Maus
Scott McDonald, Codey Maus, Wesley Forget, Jeff Grant, Brian Chick
London, ON

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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