CHAMPION: Fujisawa Wins 2023 Pan-Continental Championships

SKIP
Satsuki
Fujisawa

Third
Chinami
Yoshida

Second
Yumi
Suzuki

Lead
Yurika
Yoshida

Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) won 8-6 over Seungyoun Ha (Chuncheon, KOR) in the Final of the Pan-Continental Championships, held October 31 - November 5, 2022 in Calgary, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Fujisawa won 6-5 over Kerri Einarson (Gimli, CAN) in the semifinals of the 2023 Pan-Continental Championships in Calgary, Canada;

Fujisawa finished 6-2 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Fujisawa lost 8-7 to Tabitha Peterson (Chaska, USA), then responded with a 15-1 win over Hong Kong's Ling-Yue Hung. Fujisawa won 11-1 against Jessica Smith (Naseby, NZL), then won 7-4 against Ha and 11-2 against Brazil's Isis Oliviera. Fujisawa won 11-1 against Australia's Jennifer Westhagen, then won 9-2 against Yekaterina Kolykhalova (Almaty, KAZ). Fujisawa went on to lose 9-3 against Einarson in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Pan-Continental Championships Championship title, Fujisawa earned 45.000 world rankings points. Fujisawa move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 2.581 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 4th overall with 290.173 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Fujisawa ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 120.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	61	31	0	0.663	24-10	7-10	3-5	1-0	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	730	603	447	8.26	6.12	2.14	4.90	4.01	1.68	1.53	1.08

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	360	412	100	53	14-2	26-3	82-15	1.14	0.28	0.40	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	370	191	347	26	2-4	15-16	31-81	0.52	0.94	0.54	0.34

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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