Japan's Ryo Ogihara4-1 at 2015 Minebea Cup

SKIP
Ryo
Ogihara

Third
Kohei
Okamura

Second
Tatsuya
Hayashi

Lead
Daiki
Yamazaki

Japan's Ryo Ogihara finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Ryo Ogihara defeated Japan's Hiroshi Fukui 6-5, then won 10-4 against Japan's Kenji Iwasaki and 7-4 against Satoru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN). Japan's Ryo Ogihara won 7-2 against Japan's Tasuhiro Morita. Japan's Ryo Ogihara went on to lose 4-3 against Japan's Junpei Kanda in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Ryo Ogihara earned 4.324 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Minebea Cup, moving up 113 spots the World Ranking Standings into 211th place overall with 5.259 total points. Japan's Ryo Ogihara ranks 132nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.324 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

2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Daiki Yamazaki
Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

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