CHAMPION: Abe Wins 2022 Driving Force Decks Int'l Abbotsford Cashspiel

Sapporo, Japan

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Third
Haruto
Ouchi

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Lead
Minori
Suzuki

Games:	6
Record:	6W - 0L
PF/G:	9.76
PA/G:	4.63
Hammer Efficiency:	0.56
Steal Defense:	0.10
Force Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Efficiency:	0.43

Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) won 7-6 over Brent Pierce (Kelowna, BC) in the Final of the Driving Force Decks Int'l Abbotsford Cashspiel, held October 14 - 16, 2022 at the Abbotsford Curling Club in Abbotsford, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Abe won 6-0 over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2022 Driving Force Decks Int'l Abbotsford Cashspiel in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada; and won 6-1 over Paul Cseke (Victoria, BC) in the quarterfinals. of the 2022 Driving Force Decks Int'l Abbotsford Cashspiel in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada;

Abe finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe defeated Chris Medford (Kimberley, BC) 6-3, then won 8-3 against Matthew McCrady (New Westminster , BC) and 7-6 against Cseke in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Driving Force Decks Int'l Abbotsford Cashspiel Championship title, Abe earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $5,800CDN first prize cheque, moving up 20 spots the World Ranking Standings into 51st place overall with 63.398 total points. Abe ranks 42nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 27.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	21	11	0	0.656	5-3	7-3	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	238	225	145	9.45	6.09	3.36	5.04	4.08	1.88	1.49	0.88

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	118	156	32	15	5-0	13-4	31-3	1.32	0.27	0.48	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	120	69	113	6	3-1	6-5	9-24	0.58	0.94	0.61	0.32

2022: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Haruto Ouchi, Shinya Abe, Minori Suzuki, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Jason Montgomery
Jason Montgomery, Cameron de Jong, Miles Craig, William Duggan
Victoria, BC
2016: John Morris
Jim Cotter, John Morris, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC
2002: Pat Ryan
Jim Cotter, John Morris, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
, BC
2001: Pat Ryan
Pat Ryan
, BC
2000: Doug Wilcock
Pat Ryan
New Westminster, BC
1999: Rick Folk
Rick Folk, Jeff Richard, Tyler Orme, Gerry Richard
Kelowna, BC
1998: Greg McAulay
Greg McAulay, Brent Pierce, Bryan Miki, Darin Fenton
New Westminster, BC
1994: Jim Armstrong
Jim Armstrong
Vancouver, BC
1992: Steve Skillings
Steve Skillings, Mike Wood, Sean Cromarty, Colin Atkinson
Victoria, BC

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