Geall Runner-Up at 2018 Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel

Kelowna, British Columbia

SKIP
Sean
Geall

Third
Jeff
Richard

Second
Andrew
Nerpin

Lead
David
Harper

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	8.78
PA/G:	6.34
Hammer Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Efficiency:	0.37

Sean Geall (Kelowna, BC) lost 7-1 to Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel, held October 12 - 14, 2018 at the Abbotsford Curling Club in Abbotsford, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Geall won 7-5 over Thomas Scoffin (Whitehorse, YK) in the semifinals of the 2018 Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada; and won 8-6 over Wylie Eden (Kelowna, BC) in the quarterfinals.

Geall finished 3-0 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Geall defeated Duncan Silversides (Victoria, BC) 7-0, then won 5-2 against Andrew Dunbar (Inuvik, NT) and 8-6 against Mark Longworth (Vernon, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Driving Force Abbotsford Cashspiel, Geall take home 14.407 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN prize, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 38th place overall with 98.603 total points. Geall ranks 44th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 27.721 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

2024: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Haruto Ouchi, Shinya Abe, Minori Suzuki, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Jason Montgomery
Jason Montgomery, Cameron de Jong, Miles Craig, William Duggan
Victoria, BC
2016: John Morris
Jim Cotter, John Morris, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC
2002: Pat Ryan
Jim Cotter, John Morris, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
, BC
2001: Pat Ryan
Pat Ryan
, BC
2000: Doug Wilcock
Pat Ryan
New Westminster, BC
1999: Rick Folk
Rick Folk, Jeff Richard, Tyler Orme, Gerry Richard
Kelowna, BC
1998: Greg McAulay
Greg McAulay, Brent Pierce, Bryan Miki, Darin Fenton
New Westminster, BC
1994: Jim Armstrong
Jim Armstrong
Vancouver, BC
1992: Steve Skillings
Steve Skillings, Mike Wood, Sean Cromarty, Colin Atkinson
Victoria, BC

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