Manuel

Halifax, Nova Scotia

SKIP
Matthew
Manuel

Third
Luke
Saunders

Second
Adam
Cocks

Lead
Jeff
Wilson

Matthew Manuel (Halifax, NS) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Manuel finished 4-3 in the 8 team Deloitte Nova Scotia Tankard qualifying round, held January 20 - 26 at the Dartmouth Curling Club in Dartmouth, Canada. In their opening game, Manuel lost 7-6 to Chad Stevens (Truro, NS), droppimg another game, 7-3 to Jamie Murphy (Halifax, NS) where Manuel responded with a 10-6 win over Kendal Thompson (Halifax, NS). Manuel won 7-5 against Alan O'Leary (Halifax, NS), then won 9-8 against Stuart Thompson (Dartmouth, NS) and 8-3 against Andrew Gibson (Nova Scotia). Manuel went on to lose 9-2 against Brent MacDougall (Halifax, NS) in their final qualifying round match.

Manuel earned 2.363 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Manuel move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 1.058 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 114th overall with 34.341 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Manuel ranks 112th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 33.035 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	4	4	0	0.500	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	74	51	54	6.89	7.30	-0.41	4.32	4.59	1.59	1.59	1.08

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	36	35	17	6	0-1	3-0	9-4	0.97	0.47	0.40	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	38	16	37	2	0-0	0-2	4-9	0.42	0.97	0.54	0.32

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