Blumberga5-4 at 2017 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

Fourth
Ieva
Krusta

SKIP
Santa
Blumberga

Second
Zanda
Bikse

Lead
Evelina
Barone

Santa Blumberga (Riga, LAT) finished 5-4 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Blumberga defeated Virginija Paulauskaite (Vilnius, LTU) 6-1, then won 8-5 against Dilsat Yildiz (Eruzurum, TUR). Blumberga went on to lose 8-7 against Marianne Neeleman (Zoetermeer, NED). Blumberga lost 12-6 to Anna Fowler (Kent, ENG) where Blumberga responded with a 8-7 win over Marta Pluta (Gliwice, POL). Blumberga went on to lose 10-8 against Dorottya Palancsa (Budapest, HUN). Blumberga responded with a 6-4 win over Elena Axamitova (Bratislava, SVK). Blumberga won 8-6 against Alina Pavlyuchik (Minsk, BLR). Blumberga went on to lose 10-6 against Maile Molder (Tallinn, EST) in their final qualifying round match.

Blumberga earned 3.474 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 33 spots the World Ranking Standings into 191st place overall with 5.145 total points. Blumberga ranks 143rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 5.005 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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