Hirata3-6 at 2017 Winter Universiade Men

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Kohsuke
Hirata

Third
Yoshiya
Miura

Second
Hiromu
Otani

Lead
Yuto
Kamada

Games:	9
Record:	3W - 6L
PF/G:	5.61
PA/G:	7.56
Hammer Efficiency:	0.29
Steal Defense:	0.24
Force Efficiency:	0.52
Steal Efficiency:	0.18

Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) finished 3-6 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hirata defeated Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR) 7-6, then went on to lose 7-4 against Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS). Hirata lost 7-6 to Se Hyeon Seong (Uiseong, KOR) where Hirata responded with a 7-3 win over Daniel Alex Kim (Almaty, KAZ). Hirata went on to lose 6-5 against Aaron Squires (Kitchener-Waterloo, CAN). Hirata responded with a 7-5 win over Alex Leichter (Boston, USA). Hirata went on to lose 10-4 against Bruce Mouat (Stirling, UK). Hirata lost 8-3 to Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Hirata lost 10-3 to Gustav Eskilsson (Skelleftea, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Hirata earned 2.662 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 143 spots the World Ranking Standings into 421st place overall with 3.136 total points. Hirata ranks 351st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.662 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

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