CHAMPION: Carruthers Wins 2018 Karuizawa International

SKIP
Reid
Carruthers

Third
Mike
McEwen

Second
Matt
Wozniak

Lead
Colin
Hodgson

Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, CAN) won 7-6 over Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Carruthers won 5-2 over Masaki Iwai (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2018 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan; and won 6-2 over Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan;

Carruthers finished 4-0 in the 15 team Karuizawa International qualifying round, held December 20 - 23, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Carruthers defeated Yamaguchi 5-2, then won 7-1 against Yoshiro Shimizu (Karuizawa, JPN) and 6-2 against Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR). Carruthers won 9-2 against Daiki Shikano (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Karuizawa International Championship title, Carruthers earned 26.156 world rankings points along with the $15,894CDN first prize cheque. Carruthers move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 22.196 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 12th overall with 310.532 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Carruthers ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 191.464 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	7	0	0	1.000	2-0	2-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	51	45	17	8.82	3.33	5.49	4.51	2.94	1.96	1.13	2.55

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	28	30	4	9	1-0	2-0	8-0	1.07	0.14	0.58	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	23	15	13	4	0-0	1-0	5-2	0.65	0.57	0.82	0.35

2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Mike McEwen, Matt Wozniak, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, CAN
2017: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Tetsuro Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Kosuke Morozumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Aberdeen, SCO
2015: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2014: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2013: Chang-Min Kim
Changmin Kim, Min-Chan Kim, Se-Hyun Sung, Young-Seon Seo, Eun Soo Oh
Gyeongbuk Uiseong, KOR

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