CHAMPION: Yanagisawa Wins 2022 King Cash Spiel

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Games:	6
Record:	6W - 0L
PF/G:	10.83
PA/G:	4.44
Hammer Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Defense:	0.16
Force Efficiency:	0.80
Steal Efficiency:	0.35

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) won 6-2 over Brent Pierce (Kelowna, BC) in the Final of the King Cash Spiel, held December 2 - 4, 2022 at the Golden Ears Curling Club in Maple Ridge, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Yanagisawa won 7-3 over Jason Montgomery (Victoria, BC) in the semifinals of the 2022 King Cash Spiel in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada; and won 7-6 over Cameron de Jong (Penticton, BC) in the quarterfinals.

Yanagisawa finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Montgomery 4-3, then won 5-1 against Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO) and 10-1 against Steve Strathdee (Penticton, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the King Cash Spiel Championship title, Yanagisawa earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $4,000CDN first prize cheque. For week 18 of the event schedule, Yanagisawa did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 34th to 36th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 95.991 total points. Yanagisawa ranks 23rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 84.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	64	31	0	0.674	10-6	13-10	8-3	1-0	2-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	720	556	447	7.72	6.21	1.51	4.58	3.93	1.68	1.58	1.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	344	427	79	43	10-1	28-5	96-9	1.24	0.23	0.45	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	376	129	368	64	1-10	6-21	28-66	0.34	0.98	0.57	0.23

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2022: Riku Yanagisawa
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2018: Tyler Tardi
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1994: Al Moore
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