Kuriyama3-2 at 2015 Minebea Cup

SKIP
Hiromitsu
Kuriyama

Third
Takuya
Kanbayashi

Second
Satoshi
Koizumi

Lead
Katsura
Kikuchi

Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Nagano, JPN) finished 3-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kuriyama defeated Japan's Shinpei Matsumoto 9-4, then went on to lose 7-3 against Japan's Satoshi Okada. Kuriyama responded with a 6-5 win over Japan's Hideaki Nakamura. Kuriyama won 6-2 against Japan's Arihito Kasahara. Kuriyama went on to lose 7-4 against Japan's Kazuhisa Unoura in their final qualifying round match.

Kuriyama earned 4.324 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Minebea Cup, moving up 357 spots the World Ranking Standings into 227th place overall with 4.324 total points. Kuriyama ranks 133rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.324 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

2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Daiki Yamazaki
Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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