Ogihara4-4 at 2017 Japan Curling Championships

SKIP
Ryo
Ogihara

Third
Kohei
Okamura

Second
Tatsuya
Hayashi

Lead
Daiki
Yamazaki

Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 4-4 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ogihara lost 7-5 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN), droppimg another game, 7-6 to Hiromitsu Fujinaka (Okayama, JPN) where Ogihara responded with a 7-6 win over Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN). Ogihara won 5-3 against Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN). Ogihara went on to lose 8-7 against Kota Onodera (Hokkaido, JPN). Ogihara responded with a 8-3 win over Taisel Miura (Hokkaido, JPN). Ogihara went on to lose 7-5 against Shingo Usui (Sapporo, JPN). Ogihara responded with a 6-5 win over Yuki Sawamukai (Hokkaido, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Ogihara earned 5.130 world rankings points for their Top 4 finish in the Japan Curling Championships, moving up 24 spots the World Ranking Standings into 180th place overall with 25.091 total points. Ogihara ranks 172nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 14.782 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

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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