Frans5-3 at Dairy Farmers of Ontario Tankard

Oakville, Ontario

SKIP
Joe
Frans

Third
Mike
Anderson

Second
Scott
Foster

Lead
Trevor
Wall

Games:	8
Record:	5W - 3L
PF/G:	6.97
PA/G:	5.53
Hammer Efficiency:	0.41
Steal Defense:	0.24
Force Efficiency:	0.68
Steal Efficiency:	0.21

Joe Frans (Oakville, ON) finished 5-3 in the 12 team Dairy Farmers of Ontario Tankard - Qualifier B qualifying round, held January 12 - 14, 2018 at the Brant Curling Club in Brantford, Canada. In their opening game, Frans defeated Dale Kelly (Chatham, ON) 8-5, then won 7-6 against Richard Krell (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON). Frans went on to lose 7-6 against Wayne Tuck Jr. (Brantford, ON). Frans responded with a 7-6 win over Pat Ferris (Grimsby, ON). Frans went on to lose 7-4 against Rob Retchless (Toronto, ON). Frans responded with a 9-4 win over Daryl Shane (Listowel, ON). Frans won 8-2 against Steve Allen (Ottawa, ON). Frans went on to lose 5-4 against Codey Maus (London, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Frans earned 3.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 7 spots the World Ranking Standings into 124th place overall with 41.984 total points. Frans ranks 171st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.425 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	5	3	0	0.625	2-1	3-2	2-2	1-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	76	53	42	6.97	5.53	1.45	4.34	4.47	1.61	1.24	1.18

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	37	44	9	3	2-0	1-0	11-0	1.19	0.24	0.41	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	39	9	33	6	0-0	0-0	1-8	0.23	0.85	0.68	0.21

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