Sasaki Runner-Up at 2023 MCT Challenge

SKIP
Honoka
Sasaki

Third
Mari
Motohashi

Second
Miki
Hayashi

Lead
Mayumi
Saito

Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) lost 7-5 to Beth Peterson (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the MCT Challenge, held September 8 - 10, 2023 at the St. Vital Curling Club in Winnipeg, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Sasaki won 7-1 over Penny Barker (Moose Jaw, SK) in the semifinals

Sasaki finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sasaki defeated Lisa McLeod (Winnipeg, MB) 6-5, then won 2-0 against Zhuo Han (HARBIN, CHN) and 5-4 against Barker in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the MCT Challenge, Sasaki take home 11.000 world rankings points along with the $1,500CDN prize. Sasaki move up 7 spots after posting a net gain of 7.625 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 46th overall with 62.000 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sasaki ranks 30th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 17.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	25	24	0	0.510	5-3	3-6	1-1	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	355	252	259	7.10	7.30	-0.20	4.48	4.70	1.58	1.55	0.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	181	185	82	16	3-4	9-5	45-6	1.02	0.45	0.35	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	174	67	177	13	1-2	3-8	12-39	0.39	1.02	0.57	0.26

Winnipeg's Team Matt Dunstone (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) won their first game Friday night to stay in contention in Cornwall.

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