CHAMPION: de Cruz Wins 2014 Swiss Curling League Finals

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Second
Dominik
Maerki

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Peter de Cruz (Geneve, SUI) won 6-4 over Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI) in the Final of the Swiss Curling League Finals, held March 3 - 9, 2014 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

de Cruz finished 9-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, de Cruz defeated Christian Moser (Uitikon, SUI) 9-8, then won 8-7 against Mario Freiberger (Zug, SUI). de Cruz went on to lose 6-3 against Marc Pfister (Bern, SUI). de Cruz responded with a 6-3 win over Pascal Hess (Zug, SUI). de Cruz won 9-8 against Michel, then won 6-5 against Moser and 6-5 against Freiberger. de Cruz won 3-2 against Pfister, then won 7-4 against Hess and 9-6 against Michel in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Swiss Curling League Finals Championship title, de Cruz earned 8.000 world rankings points, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 22nd place overall with 123.205 total points. de Cruz ranks 26th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 55.980 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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