Matsumura

SKIP
Yuta
Matsumura

Third
Yuki
Sakamoto

Second
Yoshiro
Shimizu

Lead
Yukako
Tsuchiya

Yuta Matsumura (Nagano, JPN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Matsumura finished 3-4 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Matsumura lost 8-5 to Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong Gyeongbuk, KOR), then responded with a 7-6 win over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Matsumura went on to lose 6-4 against Colin Thomas (St. John's, NL). Matsumura responded with a 10-3 win over Nobuaki Mutoh (Kariuzawa, JPN). Matsumura went on to lose 5-2 against Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN). Matsumura lost 9-3 to Jamie Boutin (Mannheim, GER) where Matsumura responded with a 6-4 win over Norway's Thomas Lovold in their final qualifying round match.

Matsumura earned 2.250 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 24 of the event schedule, Matsumura did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Matsumura ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

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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