Morozumi Runner-Up at 2022 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Masaki
Iwai

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 9-5 to Changmin Kim (Uiseong, KOR) in the Final of the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, held November 7 - 13, 2021 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. To advance to the championship game, Morozumi won 8-3 over Ting-Li Lin (Taiwan, TPE) in the semifinals

Morozumi finished 6-0 in the 7-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi defeated Hong Kong's Jason Chang 12-6, then won 8-2 against Kim and 11-4 against Lin. Morozumi won 12-0 against Viktor Kim (Almaty, KAZ), then won 12-0 against Alastair Fyfe (Riyadh, KSA) and 15-1 against Nassar Alyafei (Doha, QAT) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Morozumi take home 9.405 world rankings points, moving up 6 spots the World Ranking Standings into 53rd place overall with 64.854 total points. Morozumi ranks 143rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.405 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	17	8	0	0.680	1-3	1-0	0-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	197	220	114	11.17	5.79	5.38	5.79	3.65	1.93	1.58	0.56

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	87	128	19	7	5-0	10-1	24-3	1.47	0.22	0.49	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	110	92	95	4	4-0	5-11	21-15	0.84	0.86	0.55	0.44

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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