Bronze for Sasaki at 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Honoka
Sasaki

Third
Mari
Motohashi

Second
Miki
Hayashi

Lead
Mayumi
Saito

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	9.19
PA/G:	7.03
Hammer Efficiency:	0.60
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) won 7-2 over Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan. of the 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan; Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) won 7-2 over Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan. Sasaki lost 8-6 to Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan;

Sasaki finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sasaki lost 8-4 to Kohane Tsuruga (Sapporo, JPN), then responded with a 8-4 win over Miori Nakamura (Aomori, JPN). Sasaki won 9-4 against Japan's Minami Nakao in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Sasaki earn 6.375 world rankings points and 1858CDN, moving up 7 spots the World Ranking Standings into 54th place overall with 51.750 total points. Sasaki ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.125 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: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Ami Enami, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka, Yusuke Morozumi
Nagano, JPN
2023: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Mina Kobayashi, Connor Njegovan
Sapporo, JPN

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