CHAMPION: Tonuma Wins 2023 Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup

SKIP
Kouki
Tonuma

Third
Shusaku
Takata

Second
Hidetake
Ohtani

Lead
Ken
Suehiro

Kouki Tonuma (Tokyo, JPN) won 7-6 over Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi,Miyagi-ken, JPN) in the Final of the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup, held June 3 - 4, 2023 in Morioka, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Tonuma won 7-5 over Yuki Asanuma (Morioka, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2023 Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan;

Tonuma finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tonuma defeated Satoru Tsukamoto (Yamanakako, JPN) 6-5, then went on to lose 6-3 against Noguchi. Tonuma responded with a 5-2 win over Chikara Segawa (Morioka, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup Championship title, Tonuma earned 3.750 world rankings points along with the $743CDN first prize cheque, dropping 288 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 288th place overall with 3.750 total points. Tonuma ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	7	5	0	0.583	1-0	2-4	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	79	62	62	7.85	7.85	0.00	4.18	5.57	1.88	1.41	0.25

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	41	49	24	0	1-2	5-0	11-1	1.20	0.59	0.41	0.39

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	38	13	38	2	1-0	0-0	2-10	0.34	1.00	0.64	0.21

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