CHAMPION: Koana Wins 2021 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

SKIP
Tori
Koana

Third
Yuna
Kotani

Second
Mao
Ishigaki

Lead
Arisa
Kotani

Tori Koana (Yamanashi, JPN) won 5-4 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in the Final of the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, held August 19 - 22, 2021 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Koana won 6-4 over Seina Nakajima (Nagano, JPN) in the semifinals

Koana finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Koana defeated Sae Yamamoto (Karuizawa, JPN) 5-3, then won 7-5 against Mari Motohashi (Kitami, JPN) and 6-5 against Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Koana ranks 236th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	16	11	0	0.593	6-5	0-2	1-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	208	175	132	8.41	6.35	2.07	5.19	3.89	1.62	1.63	0.91

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	97	107	25	8	3-0	2-1	23-3	1.10	0.26	0.31	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	111	68	107	11	5-3	1-8	10-21	0.61	0.96	0.48	0.35

2023: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Mina Kobayashi, Connor Njegovan
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Yilun Jiang
Yilun Jiang, Lijun Zhang, Ziqi Dong, Xindi Jiang
Beijing, CHN
2018: Min Ji Kim
Min Ji Kim, Hyerin Kim, Taei Yang, Sujin Kim
chuncheon city, KOR
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Carey, Amy Nixon, Jocelyn Peterman, Laine Peters
Calgary, CAN

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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