Goto3-1 at 2018 Minebea Mitsumi Cup

SKIP
Masahiko
Goto

Third
Shunsuke
Kubouchi

Second
Shusaku
Osawa

Lead
Shunsuke
Tanaka

Masahiko Goto (Miyota, JPN) are currently 3-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Goto defeated Satoru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN) 11-2, then went on to lose 7-3 against Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN). Goto responded with a 9-4 win over Kota Onodera (Hokkaido, JPN). Goto won 6-2 against Akira Kageyama (Sagamihara, JPN). In their next game, Goto plays Yasuhiro Morita (Kyoto, JPN) on Saturday at 3:30am and Onodera at 11:30pm.

. Goto gained -0.025 points improving upon their best 3 events, though dropped 4 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 496thplace overall with 0.224 total points. Goto ranks 290th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 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

2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Daiki Yamazaki
Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

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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