Jacques Runner-Up at Avonair Cash Spiel

Edmonton, Alberta

SKIP
Ryan
Jacques

Third
Desmond
Young

Second
Andrew
Gittis

Lead
Gabriel
Dyck

Games:	7
Record:	5W - 2L
PF/G:	9.53
PA/G:	7.21
Hammer Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Defense:	0.17
Force Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Efficiency:	0.36

Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB) lost 6-1 to Jeremy Harty (Calgary, AB) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Jacques won 6-3 over Ted Appelman (Edmonton, AB) in the semifinals of the Avonair Cash Spiel in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and won 8-4 over Daylan Vavrek (Sexsmith, AB) in the quarterfinals. of the Avonair Cash Spiel in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Jacques finished 3-1 in the 23 team Avonair Cash Spiel qualifying round, held October 3 - 6 at the Avonair Curling Club in Edmonton, Canada. In their opening game, Jacques defeated Appelman 7-1, then won 9-8 against Kevin Tym (Edmonton, AB) and 8-6 against Kurt Balderston (Edmonton , AB). Jacques went on to lose 3-2 against Warren Cross (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Avonair Cash Spiel, Jacques take home 18.253 world rankings points along with the $2,400CDN prize. Jacques move up 104 spots after posting a net gain of 17.396 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 122nd overall with 25.967 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Jacques ranks 62nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 18.253 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	5	2	0	0.714	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
2020	43	41	31	9.53	7.21	2.33	5.35	3.95	1.78	1.82	0.70

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	18	24	4	1	0-0	1-0	8-1	1.33	0.22	0.53	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	25	17	27	2	1-2	2-1	1-5	0.68	1.08	0.43	0.36

2018: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Jason Ginter, Glenn Venance
Edmonton, AB
2017: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Dean Mamer, Kerr Drummond, Dylan Webster
Airdrie,
2016: Glen Hansen
Glen Hansen, Dean Ross, Don Bartlett, George Parsons
Edmonton, AB
2015: SooHyuk Kim
SooHyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
, KOR
2014: SooHyuk Kim
SooHyuk Kim, Jongduk Park, Taehwan Kim, Minhyeon Yoo
Gang Won, KOR
2013: Ted Appelman
Ted Appelman, Shawn Donnelly, Landon Bucholz, Bryce Bucholz
Edmonton, AB

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