Aoki Reaches World Junior-B Curling Championships Quarters

SKIP
Ryo
Aoki

Third
Takuto
Ouchi

Second
Rio
Hayashi

Lead
Naoki
Kanazawa

Ryo Aoki (Sapporo, JPN) qualified for the World Junior-B Curling Championships playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 7-6 against Jacob Schmidt (Hvidovre, DEN). of the World Junior-B Curling Championships in Lohja, Finland;

Aoki finished 6-0 in the 22-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Aoki defeated Antoni Frynia (Lodz, POL) 10-2, then won 7-6 against Matthaus Hofer (Kitzbuehel, AUT) and 6-3 against Johnson Tao (Edmonton, CAN). Aoki won 8-5 against Selahattin Eser (Erzurum, TUR), then won 7-3 against Eduard Nikolov (Kyiv, UKR) and 9-2 against Aidos Alliyar (Almaty, KAZ) in their final qualifying round match.

Aoki earned 3.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the World Junior-B Curling Championships, moving up 75 spots the World Ranking Standings into 249th place overall with 5.461 total points. Aoki ranks 203rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 5.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	9	6	0	0.600	0-0	2-2	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	105	85	73	8.10	6.95	1.14	4.76	4.00	1.70	1.74	1.24

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	45	53	9	4	1-0	3-0	11-0	1.18	0.20	0.37	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	60	32	64	9	2-4	1-4	6-8	0.53	1.07	0.52	0.30

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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