Retornaz6-3 at 2019 Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships

SKIP
Joel
Retornaz

Third
Amos
Mosaner

Second
Fabio
Ribotta

Lead
Simone
Gonin

Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) finished 6-3 in the 10 team Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships qualifying round, held November 16 - 24, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Retornaz defeated Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) 10-6, then won 7-6 against Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) and 7-5 against Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR). Retornaz won 11-4 against Wille Makela (Hyvinkaa, FIN). Retornaz went on to lose 11-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Retornaz responded with a 9-3 win over Marc Muskatewitz (Baden Baden, GER). Retornaz went on to lose 7-6 against Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO). Retornaz responded with a 6-4 win over Bartosz Dzikowski (Katowice, POL). Retornaz went on to lose 10-6 against Mikhail Vaskov (Dmitrov, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

Retornaz earned 36.216 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships. Retornaz move up 28 spots after posting a net gain of 33.852 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 47th overall with 88.275 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Retornaz ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 74.092 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	7	4	0	0.636	3-0	3-3	1-1	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	103	80	71	7.77	6.89	0.87	4.47	4.66	1.74	1.48	0.87

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	49	62	14	3	2-0	7-1	8-0	1.27	0.29	0.37	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	54	18	57	6	0-1	1-4	4-9	0.33	1.06	0.61	0.22

Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing cap off a 7-1 win over Warriner/Richard to go undefeated in winning their opening event of the 2020/21 curling season.

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