CHAMPION: Ogasawara Wins 2014 Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic

Sapporo, Japan

SKIP
Ayumi
Ogasawara

Third
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Second
Kaho
Onodera

Lead
Anna
Ohmiya

Games:	8
Record:	7W - 1L
PF/G:	7.38
PA/G:	5.38
Hammer Efficiency:	0.48
Steal Defense:	0.16
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.33

Ayumi Ogasawara (Sapporo, JPN) won 5-4 over Valerie Sweeting (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic, held October 2 - 5, 2014 at the Vernon Curling Club in Vernon, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Ogasawara won 5-3 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Nagano, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2014 Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada; and won 8-7 over EunJung Kim (Uiseong, KOR) in the quarterfinals. of the 2014 Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada;

Ogasawara finished 4-1 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ogasawara lost 7-6 to Sweeting, then responded with a 4-3 win over Sarah Wark (Victoria, BC). Ogasawara won 5-3 against Mary-Anne Arsenault (Halifax, NS), then won 7-4 against Dailene Sivertson (Victoria , BC) and 8-4 against Stephanie Prinse (Chilliwack, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic Championship title, Ogasawara earned 16.100 world rankings points along with the $7,900CDN first prize cheque, moving up 18 spots the World Ranking Standings into 20th place overall with 35.376 total points. Ogasawara ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 16.100 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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2023: Rui Wang
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2022: Corryn Brown
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2019: Kelsey Calvert
Kelsey Calvert, Danielle Schmiemann, Becca Hebert, Jesse Marlow
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2018: Alina Kovaleva
Alina Kovaleva, Anastasia Bryzgalova, Uliana Vasilyeva, Ekaterina Kuzmina, Anastasiia Danshina
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2017: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, Lisa Weagle
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2016: Marla Mallett
Marla Mallett, Shannon Joanisse, Brette Richards, Blaine DeJager
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2015: Stefanie Lawton
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2005: Cheryl Bernard
Cheryl Bernard, Susan O'Connor , Carolyn McRorie, Cori Morris
Calgary, AB
2004: Cheryl Bernard
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