Morozumi Runner-Up at 2017 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Second
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 8-7 to SooHyuk Kim (Gangwon, KOR) in the Final of the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, held August 3 - 6, 2017 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan.

Morozumi finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi defeated Kanya Shimizuno (Furano, JPN) 9-2, then won 9-2 against Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN). Morozumi went on to lose 7-3 against Kim in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Morozumi take home 11.860 world rankings points along with the $5,713CDN prize, moving up 4 spots the World Ranking Standings into 26th place overall with 132.009 total points. Morozumi ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 11.860 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

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: ByeongJin Jeong
ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, MinWoo Kim, Taehwan Kim
Seoul, KOR
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Masaki Iwai
Go Aoki, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Koki Ogiwara, Kei Kamada
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
Gangwon, KOR
2016: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Chris Kennedy, Caleb Boorse
Edmonton, AB