Zang6-1 at 2016 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships

Harbin, China

SKIP
Jia Liang
Zang

Third
Xiao Ming
Xu

Second
De Xin
Ba

Lead
Jin Bo
Wang

Games:	9
Record:	7W - 2L
PF/G:	10.50
PA/G:	4.63
Hammer Efficiency:	0.56
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Efficiency:	0.41

Jia Liang Zang (Harbin, CHN) finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Zang defeated Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) 8-6, then won 25-0 against John Li (Hong Kong, HKG) and 6-5 against Ian Palangio (Sydney, AUS). Zang won 8-1 against Peter De Boer (Naseby, NZ). Zang went on to lose 8-6 against Soo-Hyuk Kim (Gangwon, KOR). Zang responded with a 7-2 win over Randie Shen (Taiwan, TPE). Zang won 13-3 against Viktor Kim (Almaty, KAZ) in their final qualifying round match.

Zang earned 11.507 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 27th place overall with 129.818 total points. Zang ranks 17th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 95.179 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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