Pierce3-3 at 2024 Astec Safety Challenge

SKIP
Brent
Pierce

Third
Cody
Johnston

Second
Matthew
McCrady

Lead
Nicholas
Umbach

Brent Pierce (New Westminster, BC) finished 3-3 in the 21-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Pierce lost 8-6 to Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB), then responded with a 7-6 win over 's . Pierce won 10-4 against Carl deConinck Smith (Fox Valley, SK). Pierce went on to lose 8-7 against Carruthers. Pierce responded with a 5-2 win over Jacob Libbus (Okotoks, AB). Pierce went on to lose 6-4 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) in their final qualifying round match.

Pierce earned 7.875 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 61st place overall with 55.393 total points. Pierce ranks 57th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 47.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	26	12	0	0.684	4-0	4-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	289	246	182	8.51	6.30	2.21	5.02	3.84	1.70	1.64	1.14

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	139	172	31	17	5-0	11-1	37-5	1.24	0.22	0.43	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	150	74	151	16	2-5	4-10	11-28	0.49	1.01	0.51	0.31

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