Morozumi Reaches 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic Quarters

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) qualified for the 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 9-2 against Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK). of the 2013 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Morozumi finished 5-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi lost 6-2 to Ted Appelman (Edmonton, AB), then responded with a 7-1 win over Fengchun Wang (Harbin, CHN). Morozumi went on to lose 6-0 against Rob Fowler (Brandon, MB). Morozumi responded with a 6-0 win over Shane Park (Edmonton, AB). Morozumi won 10-5 against Korea's Soo-Hyuk Kim, then won 5-2 against Appelman and 7-6 against Andrew Bilesky (New Westminster, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

Morozumi earned 5.175 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 35th place overall with 38.675 total points. Morozumi ranks 27th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 16.425 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	44	34	0	0.564	30-11	9-15	6-6	1-0	1-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	631	509	434	8.07	6.88	1.19	4.79	4.37	1.69	1.57	0.84

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	306	359	106	20	11-2	17-3	77-19	1.17	0.35	0.37	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	325	150	328	33	3-8	14-17	23-67	0.46	1.01	0.54	0.28

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