Matsumura4-1 at 2016 Minebea Cup

SKIP
Hayato
Matsumura

Third
Rui
Sato

Second
Genya
Nishizawa

Lead
Shu
Kai

Hayato Matsumura (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Matsumura defeated Hiromitsu Fujinaka (Okayama, JPN) 3-2, then went on to lose 5-2 against Kazuhisa Unoura (Osaka, JPN). Matsumura responded with a 15-3 win over Kenji Iwasaki (Miyota, JPN). Matsumura won 10-1 against Suguru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN), then won 2-0 against Shota Iino (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Minebea Cup, Matsumura take home 6.597 world rankings points along with the $1,292CDN prize, moving up 166 spots the World Ranking Standings into 245th place overall with 7.545 total points. Matsumura ranks 108th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 6.597 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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