Morozumi3-4 at ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Yuta
Matsumura

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 3-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi defeated Hiromitsu Fujinaka (Okayama, JPN) 12-3, then won 11-5 against Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN). Morozumi went on to lose 6-3 against Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN). Morozumi responded with a 7-5 win over Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN). Morozumi went on to lose 8-7 against Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN). Morozumi lost 11-10 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN). Morozumi lost 11-3 to Kounosuke Takahashi (Nagano, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Morozumi earned 4.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Morozumi move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of -15.531 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 15th overall with 154.125 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Morozumi ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 154.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	55	35	0	0.611	19-7	11-8	6-5	3-1	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	622	532	433	8.55	6.96	1.59	4.86	4.24	1.76	1.64	0.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	307	385	107	28	13-3	29-6	76-13	1.25	0.35	0.42	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	315	147	326	28	2-3	11-27	24-67	0.47	1.03	0.50	0.30

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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