Kanda4-1 at 2018 Minebea Mitsumi Cup

SKIP
Junpei
Kanda

Third
Kosuke
Morozumi

Second
Shinya
Iwamoto

Lead
Shotaro
Hashimoto

Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) finished 4-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kanda defeated Kenji Iwasaki (Miyota, JPN) 11-2, then won 6-5 against Hiromitsu Fujinaka (Okayama, JPN). Kanda went on to lose 7-4 against Yoshihiro Sakaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN). Kanda responded with a 9-4 win over Tomoji Arai (Tokyo, JPN). Kanda won 6-3 against Kenji Komoda (Sagamihara, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

. Kanda gained -4.203 points improving upon their best 3 events, though dropped 5 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 90thplace overall with 37.823 total points. Kanda ranks 536th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 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

2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Daiki Yamazaki
Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

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