Morozumi3-3 at 2017 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Second
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 3-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi defeated SooHyuk Kim (Gangwon, KOR) 5-3, then won 6-3 against Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK). Morozumi went on to lose 5-0 against Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN). Morozumi lost 4-3 to Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) where Morozumi responded with a 6-5 win over Jeremy Harty (Calgary, AB). Morozumi went on to lose 5-4 against Laycock in their final qualifying round match.

Morozumi earned 3.706 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, dropping 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 34th place overall with 143.751 total points. Morozumi ranks 48th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 23.602 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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