CHAMPION: De Cruz Wins 2017 Swiss Curling Championship

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

Third
Claudio
Paetz

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI) won 8-6 over Felix Attinger (Dubendorf, SUI) in the Final of the Swiss Curling Championship, held February 11 - 18, 2017 in Flims, Switzerland.

De Cruz finished 8-2 in the 6-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, De Cruz defeated Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI) 7-6, then won 8-3 against Yves Hess (Zurich, SUI). De Cruz went on to lose 9-6 against Attinger. De Cruz responded with a 9-3 win over Florian Meister (Zurich, SUI). De Cruz won 7-5 against Marc Pfister (Adelboden, SUI), then won 9-3 against Schwaller and 9-4 against Attinger. De Cruz went on to lose 6-5 against Pfister. De Cruz responded with a 7-5 win over Hess. De Cruz won 6-1 against Meister in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Swiss Curling Championship Championship title, De Cruz earned 20.948 world rankings points. De Cruz gained 9.975 points improving upon their best events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 17thplace overall with 387.274 total points. De Cruz ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 234.118 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

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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