Abe Runner-Up at Pan-Continental Championships

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Second
Haruto
Ouchi

Lead
Hayato
Sato

Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) lost 6-4 to Xiao Ming Xu (Beijing, CHN) in the Final of the Pan-Continental Championships, held October 27 - November 2 in Lacombe, Alberta. To advance to the championship game, Abe won 8-4 over Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN) in the semifinals

Abe finished 4-3 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe defeated Ken Hsu (Taipei City, TPE) 9-1, then won 7-4 against Australia's Steve Johns and 6-4 against JaeBeom Lee (Uiseong, KOR). Abe went on to lose 5-4 against Xu. Abe lost 7-5 to Gushue where Abe responded with a 9-1 win over Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL). Abe went on to lose 8-2 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Pan-Continental Championships, Abe take home 27.500 world rankings points. For week 14 of the event schedule, Abe did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Abe 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

Jennifer Armstrong/Tyrel Griffith clinched their spot in the third and final Canadian Olympic Trials qualifier at the Rocky Mountain Curling classic.

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