Pierce1-3 at 2021 Alberta Curling Series: Avonair

SKIP
Melissa
Pierce

Third
Jennifer
Van Wieren

Second
Megan
Anderson

Lead
Kelly
Erickson

Melissa Pierce (Edmonton, AB) finished 1-3 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Pierce lost 7-2 to Krysta Hilker (Edmonton, AB), droppimg another game, 7-6 to Casey Scheidegger (Lethbridge, AB). Pierce lost 10-1 to Laura Walker (Edmonton, AB) where Pierce responded with a 8-3 win over Kelsey Rocque (Edmotnon, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Pierce earned 1.378 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, dropping 3 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 92nd place overall with 34.723 total points. Pierce ranks 82nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 23.954 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	12	22	0	0.353	3-5	0-8	0-3	0-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	264	165	217	6.25	8.22	-1.97	3.83	5.19	1.63	1.58	0.98

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	144	132	81	11	4-3	7-5	22-9	0.92	0.56	0.25	0.37

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	120	33	136	15	1-4	3-8	3-22	0.28	1.13	0.60	0.18

Norway's Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten are into the win column after a tough start to the Milano-Cortina Games.

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