Tsuruga3-4 at ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship

Sapporo, Japan

SKIP
Kohane
Tsuruga

Third
Aone
Nakamura

Second
Rin
Suzuki

Lead
Kotoka
Segawa

Games:	7
Record:	3W - 4L
PF/G:	8.75
PA/G:	9.82
Hammer Efficiency:	0.32
Steal Defense:	0.39
Force Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Efficiency:	0.26

Kohane Tsuruga (Sapporo, JPN) finished 3-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tsuruga defeated Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) 7-5, then won 16-0 against Ayaka Shimba (Osaka, JPN). Tsuruga went on to lose 10-3 against Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN). Tsuruga lost 10-2 to Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN). Tsuruga lost 11-4 to Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN). Tsuruga lost 10-7 to Miori Nakamura (Aomori, JPN) where Tsuruga responded with a 10-9 win over Kai Tsuchiya (Miyota, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Tsuruga earned 6.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 90 spots the World Ranking Standings into 143rd place overall with 7.500 total points. Tsuruga ranks 140th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	5	10	0	0.333	0-3	0-1	0-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	117	88	105	7.52	8.97	-1.45	4.44	5.04	1.69	1.78	0.51

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	61	65	34	3	2-0	5-3	11-7	1.07	0.56	0.31	0.34

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	56	23	71	3	1-2	1-6	3-15	0.41	1.27	0.39	0.27

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