Morozumi5-2 at 2016 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Games:	9
Record:	6W - 3L
PF/G:	9.52
PA/G:	6.07
Hammer Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Defense:	0.22
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.29

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 5-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi lost 8-6 to Jia Liang Zang (Harbin, CHN), then responded with a 7-6 win over Randie Shen (Taiwan, TPE). Morozumi went on to lose 5-2 against Peter De Boer (Naseby, NZ). Morozumi responded with a 15-3 win over Viktor Kim (Almaty, KAZ). Morozumi won 9-3 against Ian Palangio (Sydney, AUS), then won 19-2 against John Li (Hong Kong, HKG) and 8-7 against Soo-Hyuk Kim (Gangwon, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Morozumi take home 14.891 world rankings points, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 23rd place overall with 169.391 total points. Morozumi ranks 42nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 50.055 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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