Yoshimura Reaches 2022 RBC Dominion Securities Western Showdown Quarters

SKIP
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Third
Mina
Kobayashi

Second
Kaho
Onodera

Lead
Anna
Ohmiya

Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) qualified for the 2022 RBC Dominion Securities Western Showdown playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 5-3 against Meghan Walter (Winnipeg, MB). of the 2022 RBC Dominion Securities Western Showdown in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada;

Yoshimura finished 5-2 in the 28-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura defeated Rebecca Morrison (Stirling, SCO) 6-5, then went on to lose 9-3 against Raphaela Keiser (St. Moritz, SUI). Yoshimura responded with a 9-8 win over Seungyoun Ha (Chuncheon, KOR). Yoshimura won 7-1 against Michele Jaeggi (Bern, SUI), then won 6-2 against Stefania Constantini (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA) to advance to a B-Qualifier game where they lost 6-4 against Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) to drop into a C-Qualifier game where they responded with a 7-3 win over Skylar Ackerman (Saskatoon, SK) to advance to the playoff round. in their final qualifying round match.

Yoshimura earned 21.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the RBC Dominion Securities Western Showdown. Yoshimura gained 4.5 points improving upon their best 3 events, though dropped 3 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 33rdplace overall with 90.591 total points. Yoshimura ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 58.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	30	12	0	0.714	6-1	3-1	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	299	251	169	8.39	5.65	2.74	4.98	3.78	1.68	1.50	1.24

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	145	176	35	20	4-1	12-1	40-4	1.21	0.24	0.45	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	154	75	134	17	1-2	4-7	13-25	0.49	0.87	0.61	0.32

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

CURLING HISTORY: A Prize Letter

In the run up to Christmas Day, 1893, the Aberdeen Peoples's Journal offered a prize of one guinea for the best letter about curling! That's the invitation... (read more)
EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)