Richard Runner-Up at 2023 King Cash Spiel

Kelowna, British Columbia

SKIP
Jeff
Richard

Third
Richard
Krell

Second
Daniel
Wenzek

Lead
Connor
Deane

Games:	6
Record:	4W - 2L
PF/G:	9.05
PA/G:	6.67
Hammer Efficiency:	0.45
Steal Defense:	0.24
Force Efficiency:	0.75
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Jeff Richard (Kelowna, BC) lost 8-2 to Jason Montgomery (Victoria, BC) in the Final of the King Cash Spiel, held October 20 - 22, 2023 at the Golden Ears Curling Club in Maple Ridge, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Richard won 8-6 over Kyler Kleibrink (Langley, BC) in the semifinals of the 2023 King Cash Spiel in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada; and won 8-2 over Paul Cseke (Victoria, BC) in the quarterfinals.

Richard finished 2-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Richard defeated Daniel Deng (New Westminster, BC) 7-3, then won 8-3 against Kaiden Beck (Salmon Arm, BC). Richard went on to lose 6-5 against Cseke in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the King Cash Spiel, Richard take home 8.250 world rankings points along with the $2,400CDN prize. Richard move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 1.028 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 66th overall with 54.989 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Richard ranks 67th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 18.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	24	17	0	0.585	3-0	2-2	0-2	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	293	253	203	8.63	6.93	1.71	4.78	4.23	1.81	1.64	0.99

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	139	192	39	14	10-0	12-1	37-10	1.38	0.28	0.47	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	154	61	164	15	1-4	3-11	10-33	0.40	1.06	0.51	0.27

2023: Jason Montgomery
Jason Montgomery, Chris Baier, Miles Craig, Troy Cowan
Victoria, BC
2022: Riku Yanagisawa
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2021: Sebastien Robillard
Sebastien Robillard, Bowie Abbis-Mills, Cody Tanaka, Nathan Small
New Westminster, BC
2019: Sean Geall
Sean Geall, Jared Kolomaya, Sebastien Robillard, Nicholas Meister
New Westminster, BC
2018: Tyler Tardi
Tyler Tardi, Sterling Middleton, Matthew Hall, Alex Horvath, Tyler Tardi
Langley, BC
2017: Sean Geall
Sean Geall, Grant Dezura, Andrew Nerpin, Brendan Willis
Kelowna, BC
2017: Dean Joanisse
Dean Joanisse, Paul Cseke, Jay Wakefield, John Cullen
Maple Ridge, BC
2014: Neil Dangerfield
Neil Dangerfield, Denis Sutton, Darren Boden, Glen Allen
Victoria, BC
2013: Sean Geall
Sean Geall, Ken Maskiewich, Sebastien Robillard, Kent Bird
New Westminster, BC
1994: Al Moore
Al Moore, Ross Graham, Peter VanLeeuwen, Kieron Hunt
North Vancouver, BC

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