CHAMPION: Maeda Wins Hokkaido Curling Championships

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Asei
Nakahara

Second
Hiroki
Maeda

Lead
Uryu
Kamikawa

Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) won 12-5 over Shunta Kobayashi (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the Hokkaido Curling Championships, held December 6 - 12 in Sapporo, Japan.

Maeda finished 7-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Maeda defeated Fukuhiro Ohno (Hokkaido, JPN) 10-1, then won 13-1 against Keita Takano (Hokkaido, JPN) and 7-2 against Yutaro Kasai (Sapporo, JPN). Maeda won 9-2 against Kobayashi, then won 9-1 against Taia Nakahara (Kitami, JPN) and 8-1 against Hiroyuki Honda (Kitami, JPN). Maeda won 3-2 against Yuya Takigahira (Hokkaido, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Hokkaido Curling Championships Championship title, Maeda earned 3.750 world rankings points, remaining in 57th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 1.5 after improving upon their best so far this season. Maeda ranks 48th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 53.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	38	18	0	0.679	14-5	4-5	2-2	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	400	359	254	8.98	6.35	2.63	4.88	4.00	1.84	1.59	1.13

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	196	248	75	25	10-1	23-4	44-10	1.27	0.38	0.45	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	204	111	179	20	1-4	8-12	16-34	0.54	0.88	0.54	0.37

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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