Pierce Reaches 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic Quarters

New Westminster, British Columbia

Fourth
Sean
Geall

SKIP
Brent
Pierce

Second
Sebastien
Robillard

Lead
Mark
Olson

Games:	7
Record:	4W - 3L
PF/G:	8.29
PA/G:	7.56
Hammer Efficiency:	0.56
Steal Defense:	0.33
Force Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Efficiency:	0.25

Brent Pierce (New Westminster, BC) qualified for the 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-2 against Brock Virtue (Regina, SK).

Pierce finished 4-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Pierce defeated Fengchun Wang (Harbin, CHN) 8-4, then won 8-1 against Ted Appelman (Edmonton, AB). Pierce went on to lose 8-2 against Kevin Martin (Edmonton, AB). Pierce lost 7-4 to William Lyburn (Winnipeg, MB) where Pierce responded with a 6-2 win over Dean Ross (Edmonton, AB). Pierce won 4-3 against Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Pierce earned 5.175 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 36th place overall with 38.064 total points. Pierce ranks 44th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.350 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	21	14	0	0.600	6-1	4-7	4-4	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	267	195	172	7.30	6.44	0.86	4.38	4.23	1.67	1.52	1.39

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	125	152	36	12	1-0	17-1	31-5	1.22	0.29	0.43	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	142	43	136	25	1-3	1-6	5-30	0.30	0.96	0.54	0.23

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