Red Deer Curling Classic: Riku Yanagisawa vs. James Ballance

Draw Nov 16 - 3:00 pm		HMR	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Score
	Riku Yanagisawa Karuizawa, JPN		0	0	2	0	2	0	1	2	7
	James Ballance Okotoks/Edmonton, AB		0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	4

Skip:

Riku
Yanagisawa

Third:

Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second:

Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead:

Satoshi
Koizumi

Skip:

James
Ballance

Third:

Beau
Cornelson

Second:

Nathan
Kelba

Lead:

Chris
Pratt

Riku Yanagisawa

Games:	6
Record:	3W - 3L
Extra Ends:	0W - 0L
One-Point Games:	0W - 0L
PF/G:	7.23
PA/G:	7.02
Hammer Efficiency:	0.39
Steal Defense:	0.23
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.14

James Ballance

Games:	4
Record:	1W - 3L
Extra Ends:	0W - 0L
One-Point Games:	0W - 0L
PF/G:	7.20
PA/G:	10.80
Hammer Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Defense:	0.46
Force Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Efficiency:	0.17

Riku Yanagisawa

Games:	79
Record:	44W - 35L
Extra Ends:	0W - 0L
One-Point Games:	1W - 2L
PF/G:	7.01
PA/G:	6.88
Hammer Efficiency:	0.36
Steal Defense:	0.22
Force Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Efficiency:	0.20

James Ballance

Games:	45
Record:	12W - 33L
Extra Ends:	1W - 0L
One-Point Games:	1W - 1L
PF/G:	6.13
PA/G:	8.68
Hammer Efficiency:	0.28
Steal Defense:	0.27
Force Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Efficiency:	0.18

Riku Yanagisawa

James Ballance

HIGH END SCORE: HAMMER
> 4 in 2nd End vs. Niklas Edin (Jan 9, 2025)
> 4 in 8th End vs. Craig MacAlpine (Dec 12, 2024)
> 4 in 7th End vs. Dwayne Romanchuk (Nov 15, 2024)

HIGH END SCORE: STEAL
> 2 in 9th End vs. Warren Kozak (Jan 3, 2025)
> 2 in 2nd End vs. Kenan Wipf (Dec 14, 2024)
> 2 in 8th End vs. Dwayne Romanchuk (Dec 13, 2024)
> 2 in 9th End vs. Craig MacAlpine (Dec 12, 2024)
> 2 in 1st End vs. Jared Jenkins (Nov 17, 2024)
> 2 in 7th End vs. Takumi Maeda (Nov 3, 2024)
> 2 in 8th End vs. Korey Dropkin (Nov 1, 2024)
> 2 in 8th End vs. Rhett Friesz (Oct 12, 2024)
> 2 in 1st End vs. Shinya Abe (Sep 20, 2024)
> 2 in 1st End vs. John Shuster (Sep 19, 2024)
> 2 in 6th End vs. Wesley Wendling (Sep 13, 2024)

HIGH END AGAINST: HAMMER
> 5 in 8th End vs. Peter Hlushak (Nov 2, 2024)

HIGH END AGAINST: STEAL
> 4 in 5th End vs. Ben Kiist (Dec 13, 2024)
> 4 in 6th End vs. Mark Kean (Nov 10, 2024)
> 4 in 2nd End vs. Ryan Jacques (Nov 2, 2024)

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