CHAMPION: Tabata Wins ARGO GRAPHICS Cup

SKIP
Momoha
Tabata

Third
Miku
Nihira

Second
Sae
Yamamoto

Lead
Mikoto
Nakajima

Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN) won 5-4 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in the Final of the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup, held August 29 - September 1 at the Kitami Curling Club in Kitami, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Tabata won 7-5 over Seungyoun Ha (Chuncheon, KOR) in the semifinals of the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan;

Tabata finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tabata defeated Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN) 4-1, then won 7-2 against Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) and 5-4 against Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN). Tabata went on to lose 8-2 against Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup Championship title, Tabata earned 33.750 world rankings points along with the $9,236CDN first prize cheque. For week 5 of the event schedule, Tabata did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Tabata ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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