De Cruz Runner-Up at 2017 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena)

Fourth
Benoit
Schwarz van-Berkel

Third
Claudio
Paetz

SKIP
Peter
De Cruz

Lead
Valentin
Tanner

Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI) lost 8-2 to Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) in the Final of the Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena), held October 19 - 22, 2017 at the Buckingham Curling Club in Buckingham, Canada. To advance to the championship game, De Cruz won 8-1 over Codey Maus (London, ON) in the semifinals of the 2017 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena) in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada; and won 7-2 over Greg Balsdon (Kingston, ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2017 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena) in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada;

De Cruz finished 4-2 in the 28-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, De Cruz defeated Michael Fournier (Montreal, QC) 4-3, then went on to lose 3-2 against Stuart Thompson (Dartmouth, NS). De Cruz lost 5-2 to Martin Ferland (Levis, QC) where De Cruz responded with a 5-3 win over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). De Cruz won 6-5 against Thompson, then won 3-2 against Heath McCormick (Blaine, USA) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena), De Cruz take home 37.573 world rankings points along with the $7,000CDN prize, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 8th place overall with 414.265 total points. De Cruz ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 125.765 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

2009: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Jean Gagnon
Gatineau, QC
2010: Serge Reid
Serge Reid, Francois Gionest, Simon Collin, Steeve Villeneuve
Saguenay, QC
2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau/Levis, QC
2012: Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Andrew Gibson
Halifax, NS
2013: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Craig Savill, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2017: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Xiao Ming Xu, Dongxu Jiang, Jia Liang Zang
Harbin, CHN
2018: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Jonathan Beuk, Wesley Forget, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON

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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