De Cruz Reaches 2014 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau Quarters

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Second
Claudio
Paetz

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI) qualified for the 2014 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 5-2 against Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB). of the 2014 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada;

De Cruz finished 5-1 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, De Cruz lost 5-4 to Ian Fitzner-Leblanc (Halifax, NS), then responded with a 8-4 win over Mike Jakubo (Sudbury, NONT). De Cruz won 9-2 against Jeff Currie (Thunder Bay, ON), then won 5-2 against Jialiang Zang (Harbin, CHN) and 6-4 against Jean-Michel Menard (Gatineau, QC). De Cruz won 5-3 against Carruthers in their final qualifying round match.

De Cruz earned 15.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 11th place overall with 140.185 total points. De Cruz ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 44.085 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

2009: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Jean Gagnon
Gatineau, QC
2010: Serge Reid
Serge Reid, Francois Gionest, Simon Collin, Steeve Villeneuve
Saguenay, QC
2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau/Levis, QC
2012: Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Andrew Gibson
Halifax, NS
2013: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Craig Savill, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2017: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Xiao Ming Xu, Dongxu Jiang, Jia Liang Zang
Harbin, CHN
2018: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Jonathan Beuk, Wesley Forget, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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