CHAMPION: Matsumura Wins 2018 Oakville Fall Classic

SKIP
Yuta
Matsumura

Third
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Second
Yasumasa
Tanida

Lead
Shinya
Abe

Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN) won 9-2 over Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) in the Final of the Oakville Fall Classic, held August 30 - September 2, 2018 at the Oakville Curling Club in Oakville, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Matsumura won 7-6 over Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) in the semifinals of the 2018 Oakville Fall Classic in Oakville, Ontario, Canada; and won 6-3 over Xiu Yue Ma (Beijing, CHN) in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 Oakville Fall Classic in Oakville, Ontario, Canada;

Matsumura finished 3-1 in the 21-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Matsumura defeated Jan Hess (Zug, SUI) 8-3, then won 9-4 against Pierre-Luc Morissette (Saguenay, QC). Matsumura went on to lose 5-2 against Rich Ruohonen (Chaska, USA). Matsumura responded with a 8-2 win over Tanner Horgan (Sudbury, NONT) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Oakville Fall Classic Championship title, Matsumura earned 42.030 world rankings points along with the $3,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 30 spots the World Ranking Standings into 28th place overall with 101.578 total points. Matsumura ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 52.788 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2019: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2018: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2016: Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Kyle Waddell, Cameron Smith
Stirling, SCO
2015: Codey Maus
Scott McDonald, Codey Maus, Wesley Forget, Jeff Grant, Brian Chick
London, ON

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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