Shimizu Reaches 2018 Japan Curling Championship Semifinals

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Yoshiro
Shimizu

Third
Yuki
Sakamoto

Second
Riku
Yanagisawa

Lead
Hayato
Sato

Games:	10
Record:	7W - 3L
PF/G:	5.67
PA/G:	5.05
Hammer Efficiency:	0.40
Steal Defense:	0.22
Force Efficiency:	0.72
Steal Efficiency:	0.15

Yoshiro Shimizu (Karuizawa, JPN) run at the 2018 Japan Curling Championship came to an end in the semifinals with a 9-1 loss to Masaki Iwai (Hokkaido, JPN). of the 2018 Japan Curling Championship in Hokkaido, Japan;

Shimizu finished 6-2 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shimizu defeated Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) 3-0, then won 7-3 against Minori Suzuki (Aomori, JPN) and 9-8 against Kazuhisa Unoura (Osaka, JPN). Shimizu went on to lose 4-3 against Iwai. Shimizu lost 8-5 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) where Shimizu responded with a 9-7 win over Tatsuya Ogawa (Hokkaido, JPN). Shimizu won 9-5 against Atsushi Kamigochi (Hokkaido, JPN), then won 4-3 against Naomasa Takeda (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Shimizu earned 6.056 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Japan Curling Championship, moving up 336 spots the World Ranking Standings into 358th place overall with 6.056 total points. Shimizu ranks 265th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 6.056 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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