CHAMPION: Matsumura Wins 2021 Raymond James Kelowna Double Cash

SKIP
Yuta
Matsumura

Third
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Second
Yasumasa
Tanida

Lead
Shinya
Abe

Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN) won 6-0 over Cameron de Jong (Penticton, BC) in the Final of the Raymond James Kelowna Double Cash, held November 5 - 7, 2021 at the Kelowna Curling Club in Kelowna, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Matsumura won 7-4 over Jim Cotter (Vernon, BC) in the semifinals

Matsumura finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Matsumura defeated Jason Montgomery (Victoria, BC) 6-3, then won 8-2 against Paul Cseke (Victoria, BC) and 7-3 against Neil Dangerfield (Victoria, BC). Matsumura won 5-0 against Mitchell Kopytko (Kamloops, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Raymond James Kelowna Double Cash Championship title, Matsumura earned 19.205 world rankings points along with the $3,000CDN first prize cheque. Matsumura move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 9.941 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 17th overall with 169.504 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Matsumura ranks 18th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 68.024 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	35	19	0	0.648	13-5	4-6	3-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	401	334	253	8.33	6.31	2.02	5.04	3.77	1.65	1.68	1.20

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	193	243	26	33	7-0	17-2	47-2	1.26	0.13	0.44	0.10

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	208	91	227	15	0-7	6-13	17-46	0.44	1.09	0.50	0.30

2021: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe
Kitami, JPN
2008: Bert Gretzinger
Bert Gretzinger
Kelowna, BC
2007: Jay Peachey
Bert Gretzinger
, BC

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