Morozumi3-4 at ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Yuta
Matsumura

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Masaki
Iwai

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 3-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi defeated Ryutaro Tani (Tokyo, JPN) 9-4, then won 7-6 against Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) and 10-5 against Natsu Kikuchi (Hokkaido, JPN). Morozumi went on to lose 4-3 against Takumi Maeda (Tokoro, JPN). Morozumi lost 9-4 to Rui Matsuura (Nagano, JPN). Morozumi lost 6-5 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN). Morozumi lost 9-7 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Morozumi earned 4.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 28 of the event schedule, Morozumi did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 29th to 31st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 97.250 total points. Morozumi ranks 31st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 97.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	45	37	0	0.549	13-1	6-4	1-0	1-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	602	467	385	7.76	6.40	1.36	4.88	4.07	1.59	1.57	1.05

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	284	345	84	27	9-0	21-6	74-15	1.21	0.30	0.40	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	318	122	301	36	1-8	3-16	18-55	0.38	0.95	0.58	0.30

Duluth's Korey Dropkin (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) is set to begin their tour season at the Euro Super Series in Stirling, Scotland.

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