Nakamura Runner-Up at Tohoku Curling Championships

Fourth
Misaki
Tanaka

SKIP
Miori
Nakamura

Second
Haruka
Kihara

Lead
Hiyori
Ichinohe

Miori Nakamura (Aomori, JPN) lost 9-8 to Kotoka Segawa (Morioka, JPN) in the Final of the Tohoku Curling Championships, held December 8 - 10 in Tohoku, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Nakamura won 11-4 over Moe Sakura (Tohoku, JPN) in the semifinals of the Tohoku Curling Championships in Tohoku, Japan;

Nakamura finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nakamura defeated Mizuho Kumagai (Tohoku, JPN) 8-2, then won 9-4 against Yuri Sakai (Tohoku, JPN) and 4-3 against Juri Kojima (Tohoku, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Tohoku Curling Championships, Nakamura take home 2.750 world rankings points, remaining in 46th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 1.625 after improving upon their best so far this season. Nakamura ranks 41st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 57.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	16	0	0.636	9-4	5-2	3-2	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	321	255	216	7.94	6.73	1.22	4.83	4.33	1.65	1.55	0.84

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	160	171	61	15	3-1	12-1	36-11	1.07	0.38	0.35	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	161	84	155	12	0-2	6-11	18-32	0.52	0.96	0.53	0.34

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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