Bronze for De Cruz at 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship

Geneve, Switzerland

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

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 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship in Lethbridge, Alberta. of the 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship in Lethbridge, Alberta; Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) won 8-4 over Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 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. of the 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship in Lethbridge, Alberta;

De Cruz finished 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), then won 9-6 against Marc Muskatewitz (Baden Baden, GER) and 7-4 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA). De Cruz went on to lose 9-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). De Cruz responded with a 11-2 win over SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR). De Cruz went on to lose 6-5 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). De Cruz responded with a 6-5 win over Matsumura. De Cruz went on to lose 10-3 against 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. 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

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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