Kawahira1-2 at 2019 Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup

SKIP
Kagetora
Kawahira

Third
Masayuki
Fujii

Second
Kouki
Kinoshita

Lead
Yoshiaki
Sakaguchi

Kagetora Kawahira (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 1-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kawahira lost 6-3 to Suguru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN), droppimg another game, 6-6 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) where Kawahira responded with a 7-4 win over Nobukazu Komoribayashi (Morioka, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Kawahira earned 1.060 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Kawahira gained 4.296 points improving upon their best 2 events, though dropped 305 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 305thplace overall with 4.296 total points. Kawahira ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.060 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

Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner (Photo: Stephen Fisher/World Curling) are semifinal bound after picking up an eighth victory in Fredericton.

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