Bronze for Sasaki at 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Honoka
Sasaki

Third
Mari
Motohashi

Second
Miki
Hayashi

Lead
Ayuna
Aoki

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	7.03
PA/G:	6.49
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.17
Force Efficiency:	0.71
Steal Efficiency:	0.16

Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) won 6-5 over Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan. of the 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan; Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) won 6-5 over Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan. Sasaki lost 7-2 to Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Sasaki finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sasaki defeated Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN) 6-3, then went on to lose 7-5 against Kitazawa. Sasaki responded with a 7-2 win over Sae Yamamoto (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Sasaki earn 10.625 world rankings points and 1899CDN, moving up 69 spots the World Ranking Standings into 116th place overall with 12.639 total points. Sasaki ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 11.563 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	14	22	0	0.389	3-5	1-6	0-3	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	283	200	216	7.07	7.63	-0.57	4.59	4.77	1.54	1.60	0.64

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	140	150	59	6	3-2	8-3	28-9	1.07	0.42	0.29	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	143	50	157	12	0-2	5-11	6-30	0.35	1.10	0.56	0.24

2024: Ikue Kitazawa
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Nagano, JPN
2023: Sayaka Yoshimura
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Sapporo, JPN
2022: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Mina Kobayashi, Connor Njegovan
Sapporo, JPN

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