Okumura3-2 at Manitoba Viterra

SKIP
Neil
Okumura

Third
Chris
Suchy

Second
Bruce
Jones

Lead
Chad
Barkman

Neil Okumura (Winnipeg, MB) finished 3-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Okumura defeated Eren Oleson (Winnipeg, MB) 8-5, then went on to lose 10-2 against Taylor McIntyre (Winnipeg, MB). Okumura responded with a 9-3 win over Troy Hamilton (Winnipeg, MB). Okumura won 8-3 against Paul Scinocca (Winnipeg, MB). Okumura went on to lose 6-2 against Joey Witherspoon (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

Okumura earned 1.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 78 spots the World Ranking Standings into 433rd place overall with 2.051 total points. Okumura ranks 339th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.500 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

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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