CHAMPION: Ogihara Wins 2019 Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Ryo
Ogihara

Third
Akira
Ohtsuka

Second
Manabu
Aoki

Lead
Naoki
Kaneko

Games:	5
Record:	5W - 0L
PF/G:	9.14
PA/G:	3.71
Hammer Efficiency:	0.36
Steal Defense:	0.08
Force Efficiency:	0.89
Steal Efficiency:	0.50

Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) won 6-3 over Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final of the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup, held June 15 - 16, 2019 in Morioka, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Ogihara won 5-1 over Suguru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2019 Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan;

Ogihara finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ogihara defeated Naomasa Takeda (Sapporo, JPN) 7-5, then won 8-2 against Kyosuke Sawaguchi (Morioka, JPN) and 6-2 against Tomoji Arai (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup Championship title, Ogihara earned 10.595 world rankings points along with the $984CDN first prize cheque. Ogihara gained 15.756 points improving upon their best 2 events, though dropped 164 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 164thplace overall with 15.756 total points. Ogihara ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.595 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

2025: Hiroki Hasegawa
Hiroki Hasegawa, Kishiro Kyo, Kantaro Kawano, Kentaro Hashimoto, Shun Takahashi
Sapporo, JPN
2024: Takumi Hasegawa
Takumi Hasegawa, Kishiro Kyo, Ryohei Maruyama, Kentaro Hashimoto, Takumi Tanabe
Tokyo, JPN
2023: Kouki Tonuma
Kouki Tonuma, Shusaku Takata, Hidetake Ohtani, Ken Suehiro
Tokyo, JPN
2019: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Akira Ohtsuka, Manabu Aoki, Naoki Kaneko
Karuizawa, JPN

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