Retornaz3-6 at 2017 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

Trentino, Italy

Fourth
Amos
Mosaner

SKIP
Joel
Retornaz

Second
Daniele
Ferrazza

Lead
Andrea
Pilzer

Games:	9
Record:	3W - 6L
PF/G:	6.00
PA/G:	6.82
Hammer Efficiency:	0.36
Steal Defense:	0.16
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.15

Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) finished 3-6 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Retornaz lost 7-3 to Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS), then responded with a 8-7 win over Andy Kapp (Hamburg, GER). Retornaz won 9-6 against Sebastian Wunderer (Kitzbuhel, AUT), then won 8-4 against Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN). Retornaz went on to lose 6-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Retornaz lost 8-5 to Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI). Retornaz lost 9-6 to Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Retornaz lost 6-4 to Tom Brewster (Aberdeen, SCO). Retornaz lost 5-4 to Aku Kauste (Helsinki, FIN) in their final qualifying round match.

Retornaz earned 6.086 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 16 spots the World Ranking Standings into 171st place overall with 23.428 total points. Retornaz ranks 139th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.946 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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