Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen Reaches 2025 Sun City Cup Quarters

Norway

SKIP
Lukas
Hostmaelingen

Third
Tinius Haslev
Nordbye

Second
Magnus
Lilleboe

Lead
Grunde
Buraas

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	10.31
PA/G:	6.56
Hammer Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Defense:	0.21
Force Efficiency:	0.70
Steal Efficiency:	0.28

Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen qualified for the 2025 Sun City Cup playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 7-4 against Jan Iseli (Solothurn , SUI). of the 2025 Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden;

Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen finished 2-1 in the 28-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen lost 8-3 to Kyle Waddell (Stirling, SCO), then responded with a 8-1 win over Joel Westerberg (Sundbyberg, SWE). Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen won 11-3 against Kasper Wiksten (Hvodovre, DEN) in their final qualifying round match.

Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen earned 12.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Sun City Cup. Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen move up 7 spots after posting a net gain of 10.5 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 37th overall with 85.625 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen ranks 37th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 85.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	43	21	0	0.672	4-2	1-2	2-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	448	394	280	8.79	6.25	2.54	4.84	4.13	1.82	1.51	1.03

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	218	271	69	24	10-0	25-2	45-12	1.24	0.32	0.41	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	230	123	211	22	3-2	12-21	13-30	0.53	0.92	0.60	0.33

2025: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Stirling, SCO
2024: Wouter Gosgens
Wouter Gosgens, Laurens Hoekman, Jaap van Dorp, Tobias van den Hurk, Alexander Magan
Zoetermeer, NED
2023: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE

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