CHAMPION: Morozumi Wins 2022 50th Mile Zero Cash Spiel

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Yuta
Matsumura

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	10.00
PA/G:	4.22
Hammer Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Defense:	0.12
Force Efficiency:	0.69
Steal Efficiency:	0.43

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) won 4-3 over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final of the 50th Mile Zero Cash Spiel, held November 25 - 28, 2022 at the Dawson Creek Curling Club in Dawson Creek, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Morozumi won 6-5 over Paul Cseke (Victoria, BC) in the semifinals of the 2022 50th Mile Zero Cash Spiel in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada; and won 7-2 over Scott Webb (Grande Prairie, AB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2022 50th Mile Zero Cash Spiel in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada;

Morozumi finished 3-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi defeated Tracy Steinke (Dawson Creek, BC) 9-2, then went on to lose 4-3 against Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK). Morozumi responded with a 8-0 win over Darrel Veiner (Dawson Creek , BC). Morozumi won 8-3 against Kleiter in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the 50th Mile Zero Cash Spiel Championship title, Morozumi earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $10,000CDN first prize cheque. Morozumi move up 14 spots after posting a net gain of 16.687 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 43rd overall with 82.191 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Morozumi ranks 35th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 61.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	32	25	0	0.561	8-1	2-3	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	393	322	271	8.19	6.90	1.30	4.96	4.48	1.65	1.54	0.56

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	184	203	74	6	2-2	18-2	40-6	1.10	0.40	0.34	0.31

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	209	119	197	16	1-5	11-14	20-35	0.57	0.94	0.55	0.35

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Yuta Matsumura, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai
Karuizawa, JPN
2021: Graham Powell
Graham Powell, Kelsey Dusseault, Ken Powell, Marc Boisvert
Grande Prairie, AB

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