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​Luxembourg defeats Island!!!

In the second match of the first day of the competition a very well playing Luxembourg National Team with Jörg Moeser (skip), Yves Sieradzki, Claude Schweitzer and Marc Hansen defeats Island 12-4!!!

After a first match in the morning against a favourite of the C-Group: Ireland where Alex Benoy played Lead instead of Marc Hansen, they lost 11-4 against a stronger team than the Luxembourgers logically.

standings after the first day are Belarus 2 victories, all others 1 victory and island 0 victories out of two matches.

Tomorrow against Slovenia in the morning and Roumania in the afternoon will bring more information whether the Luxembourgers will be able to compete for a playoff place…..

European C-Group Championship

Livescore and all infos on: www.ECCC-2013.com

The team for the 2013 ECC-C is:

Skip and fourth: Jörg MOESER,
Third: Yves SIERADZKI,
Second: Claude SCHWEITZER
Lead: Alex BENOY
Alternate: Marc HANSEN

This Team has trained its fitness to be ready for KOPENHAGUE for the matches from the 8th to the 13th of October and participated in three high-ranked tournaments:

Garmisch-Partenkirchen mid July, Zoetermeer mid-August Basle 3rd week in September.

The playing SCHEDULE in Kopenhague:

Tuesday 8th: 8.00 LUX – IRL
Tuesday 8th: 16.00 LUX – ISL
Wednesday 9th: 9.00 LUX – SLO
Wednesday 9th: 19.00 LUX – ROU
Thursday 10th: 12.00 LUX – SRB
Thursday 10th: 20.00 LUX – WAL
Friday 11th: 13.00 LUX – BLR
Saturday 12th: play-offs for the best 4 teams and finals for the 2 upgoing teams to the B Group to be played end of November in Stavanger in Norway.

As usual for little Luxembourg, the team would be happy to finish not last out of the 8 teams competing. But a dream would be to participate in the play-offs. (as ISL, SLO, ROU, SRB have all been beaten by Luxembourg once out of two matches in the last two European Championships!)