Abe3-3 at 2023 Soo Curlers Fall Classic presented by KIOTI Tractors

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Third
Haruto
Ouchi

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Lead
Sota
Tsuruga

Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) finished 3-3 in the 21-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe lost 7-3 to Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene, ON), then responded with a 8-3 win over John Shuster (Duluth , MN). Abe won 7-3 against Dylan Johnston (Thunder Bay, NONT), then won 12-3 against Sweden's Fredrik Nyman. Abe went on to lose 9-4 against Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB). Abe lost 7-5 to Nathan Young (St. Johns, NL) in their final qualifying round match.

Abe earned 4.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 53rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 3.562 after improving upon their best so far this season. Abe ranks 47th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 30.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	21	0	0.571	8-2	5-5	3-5	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	360	312	235	8.67	6.53	2.14	4.92	3.97	1.76	1.64	1.11

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	172	231	35	23	4-1	23-1	46-6	1.34	0.20	0.49	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	188	81	200	17	3-3	5-18	10-35	0.43	1.06	0.53	0.28

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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