Japan's Ryo Ogihara3-5 at 2015 Japan Curling Championships

SKIP
Ryo
Ogihara

Third
Kohei
Okamura

Second
Tatsuya
Hayashi

Lead
Taiki
Yamazaki

Japan's Ryo Ogihara finished 3-5 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Ryo Ogihara lost 12-4 to Japan's Doi Homaretoru, droppimg another game, 11-6 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) where Japan's Ryo Ogihara responded with a 8-3 win over Kazuto Funaki (Aomori, JPN). Japan's Ryo Ogihara won 7-6 against Hironori Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN), then won 7-6 against Ryuji Shibatani (Kitami, JPN). Japan's Ryo Ogihara went on to lose 8-3 against Kouji Tsuruga (Kitami, JPN). Japan's Ryo Ogihara lost 11-9 to Naoki Iwanaga (Tokyo, JPN). Japan's Ryo Ogihara lost 11-1 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Ryo Ogihara earned 0.550 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 220 spots the World Ranking Standings into 372nd place overall with 0.550 total points. Japan's Ryo Ogihara ranks 314th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.550 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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