Sato4-4 at 2023 ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship

Sapporo, Japan

Fourth
Go
Aoki

SKIP
Hayato
Sato

Second
Koki
Ogiwara

Lead
Kazushi
Niino

Games:	8
Record:	4W - 4L
PF/G:	8.66
PA/G:	6.42
Hammer Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Defense:	0.23
Force Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Efficiency:	0.22

Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) finished 4-4 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sato lost 9-4 to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN), droppimg another game, 8-7 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) where Sato responded with a 12-4 win over Japan's Kotaro Noguchi. Sato won 7-3 against Ryo Ogihara (Tokyo, JPN), then won 8-5 against Takanori Ichimura (Nagano, JPN). Sato went on to lose 7-4 against Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN). Sato lost 6-2 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) where Sato responded with a 14-1 win over Hiroki Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Sato earned 5.250 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Sato move up 9 spots after posting a net gain of 4.085 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 54th overall with 65.166 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sato ranks 48th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 64.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	35	23	0	0.603	9-3	7-3	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	429	318	268	7.41	6.25	1.17	4.06	4.06	1.83	1.54	1.89

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	207	237	61	38	11-0	15-3	43-11	1.14	0.29	0.41	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	222	81	207	43	3-2	5-13	13-44	0.36	0.93	0.55	0.22

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