Ishikawa Finishes Fourth at 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup

SKIP
Takuya
Ishikawa

Third
Shunta
Mizukami

Second
Kohei
Okamura

Lead
Daiki
Yamazaki

Takuya Ishikawa (Tokyo, JPN) lost 5-3 to Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup in Miyota, Japan. of the 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup in Miyota, Japan; Takuya Ishikawa (Tokyo, JPN) lost 5-3 to Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup in Miyota, Japan. Ishikawa lost 7-5 to Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Ishikawa finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ishikawa defeated Tomoji Arai (Tokyo, JPN) 10-7, then won 8-7 against Hiroki Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN) and 7-4 against Michio Hatano (Chiba, JPN). Ishikawa won 5-4 against Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Tokyo, JPN). Ishikawa went on to lose 5-1 against Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Nagano, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Keijinkai Rizing Cup, Ishikawa take home 4.549 world rankings points along with 712CDN. Ishikawa move up 139 spots after posting a net gain of 4.079 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 298th overall with 5.491 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ishikawa ranks 290th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.549 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

Sudbury's Jake and Tanner Horgan will ply their trade elsewhere next season as John Epping and Ian MacMillan explore options for the future.

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