Morozumi

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Games:	12
Record:	7W - 5L
PF/G:	7.36
PA/G:	7.09
Hammer Efficiency:	0.37
Steal Defense:	0.24
Force Efficiency:	0.51
Steal Efficiency:	0.27

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Morozumi finished 7-4 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi lost 9-5 to Thomas Ulsrud (Snaroen, NOR), then responded with a 9-6 win over Kevin Koe (Edmonton, CAN). Morozumi won 9-4 against Ewan MacDonald (Perth, SCO), then won 9-5 against Pete Fenson (Bemidji, USA). Morozumi went on to lose 8-3 against Peter de Cruz (Geneve, SUI). Morozumi responded with a 8-7 win over Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS). Morozumi won 8-2 against Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN), then won 7-5 against Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE) and 8-7 against Johnny Jahr (Hamburg, GER). Morozumi went on to lose 11-4 against Oskar Eriksson (Lit, SWE). Morozumi lost 6-4 to Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

Morozumi earned 14.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 37th place overall with 66.425 total points. Morozumi ranks 33rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 44.175 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	44	34	0	0.564	30-11	9-15	6-6	1-0	1-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	631	509	434	8.07	6.88	1.19	4.79	4.37	1.69	1.57	0.84

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	306	359	106	20	11-2	17-3	77-19	1.17	0.35	0.37	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	325	150	328	33	3-8	14-17	23-67	0.46	1.01	0.54	0.28

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