Usui2-1 at 2018 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Fourth
Kohsuke
Hirata

SKIP
Shingo
Usui

Second
Daiki
Shikano

Lead
Yoshiya
Miura

Shingo Usui (Kitami, JPN) finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Usui defeated Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) 6-5, then went on to lose 10-1 against Masaki Iwai (Sapporo, JPN). Usui responded with a 11-4 win over Souta Tsuruga (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Usui take home 13.922 world rankings points along with the $5,830CDN prize. Usui gained 14.075 points improving upon their best 2 events, though dropped 153 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 153rdplace overall with 14.075 total points. Usui ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.922 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

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: ByeongJin Jeong
ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, MinWoo Kim, Taehwan Kim
Seoul, KOR
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Masaki Iwai
Go Aoki, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Koki Ogiwara, Kei Kamada
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
Gangwon, KOR
2016: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Chris Kennedy, Caleb Boorse
Edmonton, 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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