Sasaki Reaches MCT Curling Cup Semifinals

SKIP
Honoka
Sasaki

Third
Mari
Motohashi

Second
Miki
Hayashi

Lead
Mayumi
Saito

Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) run at the MCT Curling Cup came to an end in the semifinals with a 10-0 loss to Kim Rhyme (Minneapolis, MN). of the MCT Curling Cup in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Sasaki advanced through the quarterfinals with a 8-3 win over Rachel Kaatz (Winnipeg, MB). of the MCT Curling Cup in Winnipeg, Manitoba;

Sasaki finished 2-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sasaki defeated Shae Bevan (Winnipeg, MB) 6-2, then won 6-3 against Emily Cherwinski (Winnipeg, MB). Sasaki went on to lose 6-5 against Lisa McLeod (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

Sasaki earned 6.375 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the MCT Curling Cup. Sasaki move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 0.79599999999999 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 47th overall with 67.562 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sasaki ranks 40th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 45.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	25	24	0	0.510	5-3	3-6	1-1	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	355	252	259	7.10	7.30	-0.20	4.48	4.70	1.58	1.55	0.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	181	185	82	16	3-4	9-5	45-6	1.02	0.45	0.35	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	174	67	177	13	1-2	3-8	12-39	0.39	1.02	0.57	0.26

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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