Maeda3-1 at 2023 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Asei
Nakahara

Second
Hiroki
Maeda

Lead
Uryu
Kamikawa

Takumi Maeda (Sapporo, JPN) finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Maeda defeated Naomasa Takeda (Hokkaido, JPN) 6-2, then went on to lose 9-5 against Hiroyuki Honda (Kitami, JPN). Maeda responded with a 8-3 win over Harunobu Kawahira (Hokkaido, JPN). Maeda won 6-5 against Fukuhiro Ohno (Hokkaido, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Obihiro ICE Gold Cup Championship title, Maeda earned 7.500 world rankings points along with the $2,932CDN first prize cheque. For week 40 of the event schedule, Maeda did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Maeda 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

2023: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Yoshiya Miura, Sota Jutori
Kitami, JPN
2018: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Daiki Shikano, Yoshiya Miura , Hirofumi Kobayashi
Kitami, JPN

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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