Ishimura1-2 at 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Fourth
Juon
Ishimura

SKIP
Yuun
Ishimura

Second
Yuto
Nakagawa

Lead
Shunaki
Kudo

Yuun Ishimura (Aomori, JPN) finished 1-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ishimura lost 11-0 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN), droppimg another game, 11-2 to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) where Ishimura responded with a 7-6 win over Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Ishimura earned 0.938 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 172nd place overall with 14.438 total points. Ishimura ranks 26th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.938 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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