Stern9-0 at 2020 SWISSCURLING Championship

Oberwallis, Switzerland

Fourth
Briar
Huerlimann

SKIP
Elena
Stern

Second
Lisa
Gisler

Lead
Celine
Koller

Games:	10
Record:	10W - 0L
PF/G:	7.37
PA/G:	5.05
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.61
Steal Efficiency:	0.25

Elena Stern (Oberwallis, SUI) finished 9-0 in the 7 team SWISSCURLING Championship qualifying round, held February 8 - 16, 2020 in , . In their opening game, Stern defeated Binia Feltscher (Langenthal, SUI) 9-6, then won 6-5 against Irene Schori (Limmattal, SUI) and 7-6 against Nora Wuest (Wetzikon, SUI). Stern won 8-5 against Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI), then won 8-5 against Corrie Huerlimann (Zug, SUI) and 5-4 against Emma Suter (Lausanne, SUI). Stern won 8-6 against Tirinzoni, then won 9-4 against Feltscher and 4-3 against Wuest in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the SWISSCURLING Championship Championship title, Stern earned 57.590 world rankings points. Stern move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 48.432 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 5th overall with 333.591 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Stern ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 333.591 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	10	0	0	1.000	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	95	70	48	7.37	5.05	2.32	4.84	3.47	1.52	1.45	1.68

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	47	50	6	8	0-0	3-0	10-1	1.06	0.13	0.33	0.11

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	48	20	42	8	0-0	3-3	2-8	0.42	0.88	0.61	0.25

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