De Cruz Runner-Up at 2016 Swiss League Championship

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

Third
Claudio
Paetz

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) lost 7-4 to Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI) in the Final of the Swiss League Championship, held February 13 - 20, 2016 in Flims, Switzerland.

De Cruz finished 8-2 in the 6-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, De Cruz defeated Felix Attinger (Dubendorf, SUI) 9-3, then won 6-5 against Yves Hess (Zug, SUI) and 8-5 against Yannick Schwaller (Berne, SUI). De Cruz won 9-6 against Kevin Wunderlin (Biel, SUI). De Cruz went on to lose 7-5 against Michel. De Cruz responded with a 5-3 win over Hess. De Cruz won 6-3 against Schwaller, then won 6-3 against Wunderlin. De Cruz went on to lose 9-5 against Michel. De Cruz responded with a 10-6 win over Attinger in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Swiss League Championship, De Cruz take home 16.929 world rankings points. De Cruz move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 11.565 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 17th overall with 290.408 total points on the World Ranking Standings. De Cruz ranks 18th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 151.728 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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