Pokras1-6 at 2020 Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships

Metulla, Israel

SKIP
Alex
Pokras

Third
Aaron
Horowitz

Second
Larry
Sidney

Lead
Simon
Pack

Games:	8
Record:	1W - 7L
PF/G:	5.39
PA/G:	8.55
Hammer Efficiency:	0.22
Steal Defense:	0.32
Force Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Efficiency:	0.29

Alex Pokras (Metulla, ISR) finished 1-6 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Pokras lost 8-3 to Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT), droppimg another game, 7-5 to Sebastian Wunderer (Kitzbuehel, AUT). Pokras lost 10-7 to Ilya Shalamitski (Minsk, BLR). Pokras lost 8-7 to France's Eddy Mercier. Pokras lost 11-1 to Borys Jasiecki (Sopot, POL) where Pokras responded with a 6-4 win over Konstantin Rykov (Vilnius, LTU). Pokras went on to lose 7-5 against Ugurcan Karagoz (Eruzurum, TUR) in their final qualifying round match.

Pokras earned 1.336 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 40 spots the World Ranking Standings into 357th place overall with 3.356 total points. Pokras ranks 320th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.336 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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