Yanagisawa Runner-Up at 2022 50th Mile Zero Cash Spiel

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 4-3 to Yusuke Morozumi (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. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Yanagisawa won 4-3 over Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK) to advance to the championship game. of the 2022 50th Mile Zero Cash Spiel in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada;

Yanagisawa finished 3-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Colin Griffith (Grande Prairie, AB) 8-1, then won 7-5 against Scott Webb (Grande Prairie, AB) and 7-5 against Paul Cseke (Victoria, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the 50th Mile Zero Cash Spiel, Yanagisawa take home 13.750 world rankings points along with the $7,000CDN prize. For week 17 of the event schedule, Yanagisawa did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 34th place on the World Ranking Standings with 95.991 total points. Yanagisawa ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 84.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	64	31	0	0.674	10-6	13-10	8-3	1-0	2-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	720	556	447	7.72	6.21	1.51	4.58	3.93	1.68	1.58	1.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	344	427	79	43	10-1	28-5	96-9	1.24	0.23	0.45	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	376	129	368	64	1-10	6-21	28-66	0.34	0.98	0.57	0.23

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

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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