Sakaguchi2-3 at 2019 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

Karuizawa, Japan

Fourth
Kagetora
Kawahira

Third
Masayuki
Fujii

Second
Kouki
Kinoshita

SKIP
Yoshiaki
Sakaguchi

Games:	5
Record:	2W - 3L
PF/G:	10.00
PA/G:	5.83
Hammer Efficiency:	0.31
Steal Defense:	0.21
Force Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Efficiency:	0.41

Yoshiaki Sakaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 2-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sakaguchi defeated Keisaku Takada (Kitami, JPN) 13-2, then went on to lose 4-3 against Shingo Usui (Kitami, JPN). Sakaguchi lost 6-5 to Kenji Takamatsu (Sapporo, JPN). Sakaguchi lost 7-5 to Suguru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN) where Sakaguchi responded with a 10-2 win over Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Sakaguchi earned 1.201 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 21 spots the World Ranking Standings into 286th place overall with 5.497 total points. Sakaguchi ranks 113th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.261 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

2024: Toshiya Iida
Toshiya Iida, Yuta Fuuse, Koto Inaba, Kento Nishida
Wakkanai, JPN
2023: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Yoshiya Miura, Sota Jutori
Kitami, JPN
2018: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Daiki Shikano, Yoshiya Miura , Hirofumi Kobayashi
Kitami, JPN

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