Yamaguchi Runner-Up at Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Third
Riku
Yanagisawa

Second
Satoshi
Koizumi

Lead
Fukuhiro
Ohno

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 6-3 to Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Yamaguchi won 8-1 over Naomasa Takeda (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals

Yamaguchi finished 2-1 in the 8 team Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup qualifying round, held June 15 - 16 in , . In their opening game, Yamaguchi defeated Nobukazu Komoribayashi (Morioka, JPN) 6-5, then went on to lose 6-6 against Kagetora Kawahira (Karuizawa, JPN). Yamaguchi responded with a 11-2 win over Suguru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup, Yamaguchi take home 7.770 world rankings points along with the $615CDN prize. Yamaguchi gained 23.224 points improving upon their best 2 events, though dropped 126 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 126thplace overall with 23.224 total points. Yamaguchi ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.770 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	3	1	1	0.750	3-0	0-2	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	33	34	20	10.30	6.06	4.24	5.76	3.94	1.79	1.54	0.30

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	13	19	5	0	0-0	3-1	3-0	1.46	0.38	0.46	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	20	15	15	1	0-1	1-0	4-2	0.75	0.75	0.70	0.45

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