Pierce Runner-Up at 2022 Driving Force Decks Int'l Abbotsford Cashspiel

SKIP
Brent
Pierce

Third
Jeff
Richard

Second
Jared
Kolomaya

Lead
Nicholas
Meister

Brent Pierce (Kelowna, BC) lost 7-6 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the Driving Force Decks Int'l Abbotsford Cashspiel, held October 14 - 16, 2022 at the Abbotsford Curling Club in Abbotsford, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Pierce won 6-2 over Cody Tanaka (New Westminster, BC) in the semifinals of the 2022 Driving Force Decks Int'l Abbotsford Cashspiel in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada; and won 8-3 over Jacques Gauthier (Victoria, BC) in the quarterfinals.

Pierce finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Pierce defeated Bob Leclair (Scottsdale, AZ) 13-6, then won 7-4 against Sean Geall (New Westminster, BC) and 6-3 against Sebastien Robillard (Port Coquitlam, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Driving Force Decks Int'l Abbotsford Cashspiel, Pierce take home 13.750 world rankings points along with the $3,800CDN prize. For week 11 of the event schedule, Pierce did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Pierce ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

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

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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