Sakaguchi4-1 at 2018 Minebea Mitsumi Cup

SKIP
Yoshihiro
Sakaguchi

Third
Kouki
Kinoshita

Second
Masayuki
Fujii

Lead
Kagetora
Kawahira

Yoshihiro Sakaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 4-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sakaguchi lost 6-2 to Tomoji Arai (Tokyo, JPN), then responded with a 6-5 win over Kenji Iwasaki (Miyota, JPN). Sakaguchi won 7-4 against Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN), then won 7-2 against Kenji Komoda (Sagamihara, JPN) and 8-1 against Hiromitsu Fujinaka (Okayama, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

. For week 8 of the event schedule, Sakaguchi did not improve upon their best events, improving from 302nd to 299th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 3.939 total points. Sakaguchi ranks 126th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.939 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

2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Daiki Yamazaki
Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

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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