Shimizu Reaches 2018 Japan Curling Championship Semifinals

SKIP
Yoshiro
Shimizu

Third
Yuki
Sakamoto

Second
Riku
Yanagisawa

Lead
Hayato
Sato

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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