Venance Reaches 2024 Abbotsford Curling Classic Quarters

Penticton, British Columbia

SKIP
Glenn
Venance

Third
Sebastien
Robillard

Second
Erik
Colwell

Lead
Matt
Tolley

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	8.06
PA/G:	4.44
Hammer Efficiency:	0.40
Steal Defense:	0.16
Force Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Efficiency:	0.47

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

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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