CHAMPION: Yoshimura Wins 2022 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships

Sapporo, Japan

SKIP
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Third
Kaho
Onodera

Second
Anna
Ohmiya

Lead
Yumie
Funayama

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	10.17
PA/G:	5.93
Hammer Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Defense:	0.15
Force Efficiency:	0.70
Steal Efficiency:	0.31

Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) won 6-5 over Eunjung Kim (Gangneung, KOR) in the Final Yoshimura advanced directly to the championship game after finishing first in the preliminary round. of the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, held November 7 - 13, 2021 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Yoshimura finished 5-1 in the 4-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura defeated Hong Kong's Ling-Yue Hung 10-7, then won 11-3 against Angelina Ebauyer (Almaty, KAZ) and 9-5 against Kim. Yoshimura went on to lose 8-6 against Kim. Yoshimura responded with a 11-5 win over Hong Kong's Ling-Yue Hung. Yoshimura won 7-2 against Ebauyer in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships Championship title, Yoshimura earned 17.741 world rankings points, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 23rd place overall with 120.599 total points. Yoshimura ranks 70th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 19.344 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

Scotland's McMillan and Bryce set to get in mix with World's Best

After emerging on the global stage at senior level last month, Katie McMillan is feeling all the more ready for the challenge as she and partner Angus Bryce prepare to represent Scotland at the ACE & Company World Mixed Doubles Championships in Geneva over the next week (April 25 - May 2).