Retornaz5-4 at Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships

Trentino, Italy

SKIP
Joel
Retornaz

Third
Amos
Mosaner

Second
Sebastiano
Arman

Lead
Simone
Gonin

Games:	9
Record:	5W - 4L
PF/G:	7.50
PA/G:	6.90
Hammer Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Defense:	0.19
Force Efficiency:	0.46
Steal Efficiency:	0.30

Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) finished 5-4 in the 10 team Le Gruyere AOP European Curling Championships qualifying round, held November 16 - 23 in , . In their opening game, Retornaz defeated Sergei Glukhov (Moscow, RUS) 8-6, then went on to lose 7-5 against Ross Paterson (Stirling, SCO). Retornaz lost 11-4 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) where Retornaz responded with a 10-3 win over Marc Muskatewitz (Fuessen, GER). Retornaz won 8-7 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR), then won 8-2 against Andrew Reed (Kent, ENG). Retornaz went on to lose 9-8 against Mikkel Krause (Hvidovre, DEN). Retornaz responded with a 7-6 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Retornaz went on to lose 7-5 against Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Retornaz earned 15.978 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 32nd place overall with 145.977 total points. Retornaz ranks 26th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 104.471 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	5	4	0	0.556	3-1	2-3	2-1	2-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	84	63	58	7.50	6.90	0.60	4.88	4.17	1.54	1.66	0.95

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	37	45	7	3	2-0	2-0	8-0	1.22	0.19	0.35	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	47	18	51	5	0-3	0-2	4-10	0.38	1.09	0.46	0.30

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