Nakahara Reaches Hokkaido Curling Championships Semifinals

SKIP
Taia
Nakahara

Third
Yota
Michitani

Second
Riku
Takemura

Lead
Yuta
Kimura

Taia Nakahara (Kitami, JPN) run at the Hokkaido Curling Championships came to an end in the semifinals with a 6-5 loss to Shunta Kobayashi (Sapporo, JPN). of the Hokkaido Curling Championships in Sapporo, Japan;

Nakahara finished 6-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nakahara defeated Hiroyuki Honda (Kitami, JPN) 7-1, then won 9-2 against Yutaro Kasai (Sapporo, JPN) and 8-6 against Yuya Takigahira (Hokkaido, JPN). Nakahara won 22-1 against Keita Takano (Hokkaido, JPN). Nakahara went on to lose 9-1 against Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN). Nakahara responded with a 6-2 win over Fukuhiro Ohno (Hokkaido, JPN). Nakahara won 9-5 against Kobayashi in their final qualifying round match.

Nakahara earned 2.125 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Hokkaido Curling Championships, moving up 83 spots the World Ranking Standings into 274th place overall with 3.906 total points. Nakahara ranks 232nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	8	9	0	0.471	1-2	6-4	1-2	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	120	98	88	8.17	7.33	0.83	4.33	5.00	1.88	1.47	0.67

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	60	65	30	4	2-0	4-0	14-6	1.08	0.50	0.36	0.40

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	60	33	58	4	2-0	1-6	3-10	0.55	0.97	0.56	0.33

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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