Iwai1-5 at 2019 Curling World Cup Jonkoping

Fourth
Go
Aoki

SKIP
Masaki
Iwai

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Koki
Ogiwara

Masaki Iwai (Sapporo, JPN) finished 1-5 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Iwai lost 6-1 to Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI), droppimg another game, 6-4 to Mark Fenner (Chaska, USA). Iwai lost 5-4 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Iwai lost 8-3 to Schwaller where Iwai responded with a 8-2 win over Fenner. Iwai went on to lose 7-2 against Edin in their final qualifying round match.

Iwai earned 2.729 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 112th place overall with 37.117 total points. Iwai ranks 107th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 35.664 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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