CHAMPION: De Cruz Wins 2018 Curling Masters Champery

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

Third
Sven
Michel

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) won 6-5 over Glen Muirhead (Perth, SCO) in the Final of the Curling Masters Champery, held October 18 - 21, 2018 in Champery, Switzerland. To advance to the championship game, De Cruz won 8-6 over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) in the semifinals of the 2018 Curling Masters Champery in Champery, Switzerland; and won 8-2 over Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) in the quarterfinals.

De Cruz finished 4-0 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, De Cruz defeated Jan Hess (Zug, SUI) 12-4, then won 12-2 against Switzerland's Bochatay and 7-1 against Tomi Rantamaki (Hyvinkaa, FIN). De Cruz won 6-3 against Retornaz in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Curling Masters Champery Championship title, De Cruz earned 43.917 world rankings points along with the $18,433CDN first prize cheque. De Cruz move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 16.628 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 8th overall with 347.755 total points on the World Ranking Standings. De Cruz ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 129.439 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

2021: Steffen Walstad
Steffen Walstad, Torger Nergaard, Markus Hoiberg, Magnus Vaagberg
Oslo, NOR
2020: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2019: Jaap van Dorp
Wouter Gosgens, Jaap van Dorp, Laurens Hoekman, Carlo Glasbergen
Zoetermeer, NED
2018: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Sven Michel, Peter De Cruz, Valentin Tanner
Geneve, SUI
2017: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2016: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2015: James Grattan
James Grattan, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Jamie Korab
Oromocto , NB
2014: Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr., Thomas Muirhead
Aberdeen, GBR
2013: James Grattan
James Grattan, Jason Roach, Darren Roach, Josh Barry
Oromocto, NB
2012: Marcus Hasselborg
Marcus Hasselborg, Peder Folke, Andreas Prytz, Anton Sandstrom
, SWE
2011: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Peter De Cruz, Gilles Vuille, Valentin Tanner
, SUI

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