Ogihara2-6 at 2023 ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship

SKIP
Ryo
Ogihara

Third
Satoru
Tsukamoto

Second
Wataru
Henmi

Lead
Nobuhito
Kasahara

Ryo Ogihara (Tokyo, JPN) finished 2-6 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ogihara lost 10-4 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN), droppimg another game, 7-6 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Ogihara lost 9-4 to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN). Ogihara lost 7-3 to Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) where Ogihara responded with a 7-4 win over Hiroki Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN). Ogihara went on to lose 8-4 against Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN). Ogihara responded with a 8-4 win over Takanori Ichimura (Nagano, JPN). Ogihara went on to lose 11-5 against Japan's Kotaro Noguchi in their final qualifying round match.

Ogihara earned 2.625 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 27 of the event schedule, Ogihara did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Ogihara ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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