Sasaki Reaches 2023 Hack2House Alberta Curling Series Major Semifinals

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Honoka
Sasaki

Third
Mari
Motohashi

Second
Miki
Hayashi

Lead
Mayumi
Saito

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	5.38
PA/G:	5.64
Hammer Efficiency:	0.22
Steal Defense:	0.30
Force Efficiency:	0.83
Steal Efficiency:	0.26

Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) run at the 2023 Hack2House Alberta Curling Series Major came to an end in the semifinals with a 8-2 loss to Yu Han (Beijing, CHN). of the 2023 Hack2House Alberta Curling Series Major in Beaumont, Alberta, Canada; Sasaki advanced through the quarterfinals with a 5-3 win over Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN). of the 2023 Hack2House Alberta Curling Series Major in Beaumont, Alberta, Canada;

Sasaki finished 2-1 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sasaki lost 4-2 to Tabata, then responded with a 5-4 win over Youbeen Park (Seoul, KOR). Sasaki won 7-3 against Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Sasaki earned 17.000 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Hack2House Alberta Curling Series Major. Sasaki move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 10.625 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 46th overall with 72.625 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sasaki ranks 27th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 28.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	25	24	0	0.510	5-3	3-6	1-1	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	355	252	259	7.10	7.30	-0.20	4.48	4.70	1.58	1.55	0.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	181	185	82	16	3-4	9-5	45-6	1.02	0.45	0.35	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	174	67	177	13	1-2	3-8	12-39	0.39	1.02	0.57	0.26

2024: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min Ji Kim, Su ji Kim, Ye eun Seol, Ye ji Seol
Gyeonggido, KOR
2023: Yu Han
Yu Han, Meini Wang, Linyuan Tian, Jiaxin Yu , Xiao Ming Xu
Beijing, CHN
2022: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka
Nagano, JPN

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