Mercier Finishes Fourth at Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships

Megeve, France

Fourth
Quentin
Morand

SKIP
Eddy
Mercier

Second
Yannick
Valvassori

Lead
Killian
Gaudin

Games:	10
Record:	6W - 4L
PF/G:	7.85
PA/G:	6.56
Hammer Efficiency:	0.45
Steal Defense:	0.28
Force Efficiency:	0.52
Steal Efficiency:	0.20

Eddy Mercier (Megeve, FRA) lost 12-6 to Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) in the Bronze Medal game at the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships in Perth, Scotland, Scotland. of the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships in Perth, Scotland, Scotland; Eddy Mercier (Megeve, FRA) lost 12-6 to Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) in the Bronze Medal game at the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships in Perth, Scotland, Scotland. Mercier lost 7-3 to Rob Retchless (Preston, ENG) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships in Perth, Scotland, Scotland; and won 9-4 over Gontzal Garcia (San Sebastian, ESP) in the quarterfinals. of the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships in Perth, Scotland, Scotland;

Mercier finished 5-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mercier defeated Kristof Czermann (Budapest, HUN) 10-7, then went on to lose 6-4 against Konrad Stych (Warsaw, POL). Mercier responded with a 9-5 win over Eduard Veltsman (Tallinn, EST). Mercier won 7-2 against Timothy Verreycken (Zemst, BEL), then won 8-7 against Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN) and 10-3 against Chris Ribau (Lisbon, POR). Mercier went on to lose 8-7 against Truksans in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships, Mercier take home 4.000 world rankings points. For week 18 of the event schedule, Mercier did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Mercier ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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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