CHAMPION: Wang Wins 2012 Valley First Crown of Curling

Harbin, China

SKIP
Bingyu
Wang

Third
Yin
Liu

Second
Qingshuang
Yue

Lead
Yan
Zhou

Games:	9
Record:	7W - 2L
PF/G:	9.52
PA/G:	5.32
Hammer Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Defense:	0.14
Force Efficiency:	0.61
Steal Efficiency:	0.42

Bingyu Wang (Harbin, CHN) won 6-4 over Lene Nielsen (Hvidovre, DEN) in the Final of the Valley First Crown of Curling, held October 19 - 22, 2012 at the Kamloops Curling Club in Kamloops, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Wang won 8-2 over Sarah Koltun (Whitehorse, YK) in the semifinals of the 2012 Valley First Crown of Curling in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada; and won 7-1 over Allison MacInnes (Kamloops, BC) in the quarterfinals.

Wang finished 4-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Wang lost 6-4 to Kirsten Fox (New Westminster, BC), droppimg another game, 7-4 to Ayumi Ogasawara (Kariuzawa, JPN) where Wang responded with a 7-3 win over Adina Tasaka (New Westminister, BC). Wang won 10-4 against Lisa Eyamie (High River, AB), then won 4-3 against Fox and 9-3 against Desiree Schmidt (Castlegar, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Valley First Crown of Curling Championship title, Wang earned 5.500 world rankings points along with the $8,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 20th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 73.700 total points. Wang ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 11.375 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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