Venance Reaches 2024 Abbotsford Curling Classic Quarters

SKIP
Glenn
Venance

Third
Sebastien
Robillard

Second
Erik
Colwell

Lead
Matt
Tolley

Glenn Venance (Penticton, BC) qualified for the 2024 Abbotsford Curling Classic playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 4-3 against Brent Pierce (New Westminister, BC). of the 2024 Abbotsford Curling Classic in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada;

Venance finished 3-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Venance defeated Wes Craig (Victoria, BC) 8-3, then won 7-3 against Cameron de Jong (Victoria, BC). Venance went on to lose 6-5 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN). Venance responded with a 6-0 win over Jay Wakefield (New Westminster, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

Venance earned 6.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Abbotsford Curling Classic. Venance move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 3.75 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 64th overall with 53.141 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Venance ranks 75th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	25	25	0	0.500	1-5	1-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	346	257	238	7.43	6.88	0.55	4.68	4.02	1.59	1.71	1.30

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	179	172	63	26	1-0	11-5	37-9	0.96	0.35	0.32	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	167	85	175	19	2-8	7-12	10-26	0.51	1.05	0.52	0.32

2025: Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2024: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
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

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