Becker4-4 at 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championship

Naseby, New Zealand

SKIP
Sean
Becker

Third
Warren
Dobson

Second
Brett
Sargon

Lead
Anton
Hood

Games:	8
Record:	4W - 4L
PF/G:	8.25
PA/G:	7.14
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.32
Force Efficiency:	0.59
Steal Efficiency:	0.44

Sean Becker (Naseby, NZL) finished 4-4 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Becker lost 8-3 to De Jia Zou (Harbin, CHN), droppimg another game, 8-5 to Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR). Becker lost 9-3 to Hugh Millikin (Sydney, AUS) where Becker responded with a 15-3 win over Qatar's Nabeel Alyafei. Becker won 10-2 against Chinese Taipei's Randie Shen, then won 8-5 against Hong Kong's Jason Chang and 7-1 against Viktor Kim (Almaty, KAZ). Becker went on to lose 9-1 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Becker earned 2.138 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 75 spots the World Ranking Standings into 363rd place overall with 3.278 total points. Becker ranks 230th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.138 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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South Korea's Kim Seon-yeong and Jeong Yeong-seok (Photo: World Curling) scored a massive upset win over the US for their first win at the Milano-Cortina Games.

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