Blair Reaches 2024 St. Galler Elite Challenge Semifinals

SKIP
Lucy
Blair

Third
Karlyn
Lyon

Second
Amy
Mitchell

Lead
Susie
Smith

Lucy Blair (Stirling, SCO) run at the 2024 St. Galler Elite Challenge came to an end in the semifinals with a 6-3 loss to Isabelle Einspieler (St. Gallen, SUI). of the 2024 St. Galler Elite Challenge in St. Gallen, Switzerland;

Blair finished 3-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Blair defeated Ilknur Urusan (Erzurum, TUR) 8-3, then won 8-5 against Elodie Jerger (Baden, SUI). Blair went on to lose 6-3 against Corrie Huerlimann (Zug, SUI). Blair responded with a 5-4 win over Einspieler in their final qualifying round match.

Blair earned 2.125 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the St. Galler Elite Challenge, moving up 8 spots the World Ranking Standings into 124th place overall with 13.609 total points. Blair ranks 127th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	11	26	0	0.297	3-2	2-3	1-1	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	275	182	244	6.62	8.87	-2.25	4.15	4.95	1.60	1.79	0.91

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	137	125	79	11	3-1	9-8	21-10	0.91	0.58	0.26	0.37

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	138	57	165	14	3-7	2-12	6-31	0.41	1.20	0.42	0.28

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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