Smilga5-2 at 2018 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships

Riga, Latvia

SKIP
Karlis
Smilga

Third
Artis
Zentelis

Second
Janis
Klive

Lead
Didzis
Petersons

Games:	7
Record:	5W - 2L
PF/G:	8.28
PA/G:	5.47
Hammer Efficiency:	0.28
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Efficiency:	0.30

Karlis Smilga (Riga, LAT) finished 5-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Smilga defeated Belgium's Timothy Verreycken 12-2, then won 9-6 against Gabor Riesz (Budapest, HUN) and 7-6 against Harri Lill (Tallinn, EST). Smilga won 9-4 against Sergio Vez (Donostia-San Sebastian, ESP). Smilga went on to lose 7-6 against Aku Kauste (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Smilga lost 7-4 to Kevin Golberg (Jerusalem, ISR) where Smilga responded with a 6-3 win over Andrew Woolston (Kent, ENG) in their final qualifying round match.

Smilga earned 3.563 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 19 spots the World Ranking Standings into 229th place overall with 12.83 total points. Smilga ranks 149th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 11.176 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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