Rocque6-2 at 2018 Qinghai Curling Elite

SKIP
Kelsey
Rocque

Third
Alison
Thiessen

Second
Becca
Hebert

Lead
Jesse
Marlow

Kelsey Rocque (Edmonton, AB) finished 6-2 in the 9 team Qinghai Curling Elite qualifying round, held December 14 - 19, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Rocque defeated Elena Stern (Oberwallis , SUI) 9-4, then won 5-4 against Cait Flannery (Chaska, USA) and 7-3 against Yu Han (Changchun, CHN). Rocque won 6-4 against Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS), then won 7-5 against Eszter Juhasz (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Rocque went on to lose 6-4 against Daniela Jentsch (Fuessen, GER). Rocque lost 5-4 to Di Zhang (Harbin, CHN) where Rocque responded with a 6-4 win over Ying Yang (Harbin, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

Rocque earned 15.827 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Qinghai Curling Elite, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 22nd place overall with 163.369 total points. Rocque ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 128.840 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	7	3	0	0.700	3-1	3-1	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	78	57	44	7.31	5.64	1.67	4.74	3.97	1.54	1.42	1.28

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	37	43	6	5	1-0	3-0	7-1	1.16	0.16	0.34	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	41	14	38	5	0-0	1-1	2-10	0.34	0.93	0.58	0.24

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