De Cruz Reaches 2017 Ashley Home Store Curling Classic Semifinals

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

Third
Claudio
Paetz

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI) run at the 2017 Ashley Home Store Curling Classic came to an end in the semifinals with a 8-6 loss to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). of the 2017 Ashley Home Store Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada; De Cruz advanced through the quarterfinals with a 5-3 win over Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB).

De Cruz finished 5-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, De Cruz defeated Glen Jackson (Victoria, BC) 6-1, then won 8-3 against Chris Baier (Victoria, BC) and 7-2 against Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). De Cruz won 6-4 against Koe, then won 7-3 against Dean Joanisse (Maple Ridge, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

De Cruz earned 33.336 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Ashley Home Store Curling Classic, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 7th place overall with 483.662 total points. De Cruz ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 195.162 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

2023: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Scott Howard, David Mathers, Tim March
Penetanguishene, ON
2021: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Glen Muirhead
Glen Muirhead, Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Cameron Smith
Perth, SCO
2017: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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