Bronze for De Cruz at Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship

Geneve, Switzerland

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz

Third
Sven
Michel

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Games:	14
Record:	10W - 4L
PF/G:	7.58
PA/G:	6.02
Hammer Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Defense:	0.10
Force Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Efficiency:	0.23

Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) won 8-4 over Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship in Lethbridge, Alberta. De Cruz lost 6-5 to Kevin Koe (Calgary, CAN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

De Cruz went 9-3 in the 13 team qualifying round. In their opening game, De Cruz defeated Magnus Ramsfjell (Oslo, NOR) 10-4, then won 5-4 against Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) and 9-7 against Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). De Cruz won 7-6 against Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). De Cruz won 9-6 against Marc Muskatewitz (Baden Baden, GER). De Cruz won 7-4 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA). De Cruz lost their next game 9-4 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). De Cruz responded with a 11-2 win over SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR). De Cruz lost their next game 6-5 to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). De Cruz responded with a 6-5 win over Matsumura. De Cruz lost their next game 10-3 to Koe. De Cruz responded with a 8-4 win over Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship, De Cruz earn 51.648 world rankings points and 11CDN. De Cruz move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 27.831 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 8th overall with 318.993 total points on the World Ranking Standings. De Cruz ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 318.993 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	10	4	0	0.714	0-0	3-0	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	128	97	77	7.58	6.02	1.56	4.77	3.98	1.59	1.51	1.25

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	63	75	10	11	2-1	2-0	19-0	1.19	0.16	0.44	0.10

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	65	22	67	5	1-0	0-3	2-16	0.34	1.03	0.58	0.23

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