Matsumura2-1 at 2018 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

SKIP
Chiaki
Matsumura

Third
Ikue
Kitazawa

Second
Seina
Nakajima

Lead
Hasumi
Ishigooka

Chiaki Matsumura (Nagano, JPN) finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Matsumura defeated Min Ji Kim (chuncheon city, KOR) 9-5, then won 10-2 against Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN). Matsumura went on to lose 8-4 against Tori Koana (Fujiyoshida, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Matsumura take home 19.336 world rankings points along with the $5,830CDN prize. Matsumura gained 77.736 points improving upon their best 2 events, though dropped 32 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 32ndplace overall with 77.736 total points. Matsumura ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 19.336 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: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Mina Kobayashi, Connor Njegovan
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Yilun Jiang
Yilun Jiang, Lijun Zhang, Ziqi Dong, Xindi Jiang
Beijing, CHN
2018: Min Ji Kim
Min Ji Kim, Hyerin Kim, Taei Yang, Sujin Kim
chuncheon city, KOR
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Carey, Amy Nixon, Jocelyn Peterman, Laine Peters
Calgary, CAN

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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