Frans Reaches 2019 CurlON Men's Cash Spiel

SKIP
Joe
Frans

Third
Craig
Van Ymeren

Second
Matt
Mapletoft

Lead
Scott
Brandon

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	8.92
PA/G:	6.49
Hammer Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Defense:	0.30
Force Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Efficiency:	0.35

Joe Frans () qualified for the 2019 CurlON Men's Cash Spiel - Acton playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 10-6 against Rob Lobel (Thornhill, ON).

Frans finished 3-1 in the 17 team CurlON Men's Cash Spiel - Acton qualifying round, held December 14 - 16, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Frans defeated Dayna Deruelle (Harriston, ON) 7-3, then won 7-3 against Brent Palmer (Burlington, ON). Frans went on to lose 7-6 against Paul Moffatt (). Frans responded with a 7-1 win over Pat Ferris (Grimsby, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Frans earned 9.172 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the CurlON Men's Cash Spiel - Acton. Frans move up 13 spots after posting a net gain of 5.693 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 111th overall with 36.500 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Frans ranks 124th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.584 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	3	2	0	0.600	2-1	1-0	0-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	37	33	24	8.92	6.49	2.43	4.59	4.05	1.94	1.60	1.35

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	20	27	9	3	2-0	2-1	5-1	1.35	0.45	0.53	0.30

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	17	6	15	2	0-1	0-1	0-1	0.35	0.88	0.67	0.35

USA's Roth wins Uiseong International Curling Cup

In dramatic fashion, Roth scored a 5-4 win against Eun-jung Kim in an extra end to capture their first tour title since winning the Canad Inns Classic in October 2017.

Kubota Challenge: Gord Bamford vs Brad Gushue

WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)
EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E5: Young Bucks skip Korey Dropkin...

A week after Price's luggage (including recording equipment) was lost en route home from the Tour Challenge in Nova Scotia, he and Jenna are back this week.... (read more)
TWINE TIME: Tour Challenge Preview

Tier I. 30 teams. Tier II. 32 teams. Add it up and 62 teams representing 9 nations are competing for Grand Slam of Curling glory. Preview and Predictions for... (read more)
GRASSROOTS CURLING: Apparently the etiquette of curling...

Seventeen years ago, I wrote an essay that was published in The Globe ; Mail. It was titled "Curling etiquette offers rules for life", and it got... (read more)