Pougher3-4 at 2024 Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships

SKIP
James
Pougher

Third
Rhys
Phillips

Second
Garry
Coombs

Lead
Simon
Pougher

James Pougher (Hawarden, WAL) finished 3-4 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Pougher lost 8-6 to Mathias Genner (Kitzbuehel, AUT), droppimg another game, 15-6 to Eduard Nikolov (Kyiv, UKR) where Pougher responded with a 13-3 win over Lukas Matt (Liechtenstein, LIE). Pougher went on to lose 11-2 against Rob Retchless (Preston, ENG). Pougher responded with a 8-2 win over Juraj Gallo (Bratislava, SVK). Pougher won 7-6 against Ireland's John Wilson. Pougher went on to lose 10-7 against Gontzal Garcia (San Sebastian, ESP) in their final qualifying round match.

Pougher earned 1.125 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 18 of the event schedule, Pougher did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Pougher 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

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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