CHAMPION: Sato Wins 2022 Kamloops Crown of Curling

Sapporo, Japan

Fourth
Go
Aoki

SKIP
Hayato
Sato

Second
Koki
Ogiwara

Lead
Kazushi
Niino

Games:	8
Record:	6W - 2L
PF/G:	7.04
PA/G:	4.26
Hammer Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Defense:	0.08
Force Efficiency:	0.64
Steal Efficiency:	0.28

Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) won 6-5 over Brent Pierce (Kelowna, BC) in the Final of the Kamloops Crown of Curling, held October 28 - 30, 2022 at the Kamloops Curling Club in Kamloops, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Sato won 6-2 over Sebastien Robillard (Port Coquitlam, BC) in the semifinals of the 2022 Kamloops Crown of Curling in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada; and won 6-1 over Calder Fadden (Kamloops, AB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2022 Kamloops Crown of Curling in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada;

Sato finished 3-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sato defeated Denis Sutton (Victoria, BC) 8-0, then went on to lose 6-1 against Wes Craig (Nanaimo, BC). Sato lost 6-2 to Jason Montgomery (Victoria, BC) where Sato responded with a 5-2 win over Sean Geall (New Westminster, BC). Sato won 4-1 against Jim Cotter (Vernon, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Kamloops Crown of Curling Championship title, Sato earned 15.000 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN first prize cheque. Sato move up 29 spots after posting a net gain of 14.25 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 85th overall with 38.079 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sato ranks 49th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 32.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	35	23	0	0.603	9-3	7-3	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	429	318	268	7.41	6.25	1.17	4.06	4.06	1.83	1.54	1.89

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	207	237	61	38	11-0	15-3	43-11	1.14	0.29	0.41	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	222	81	207	43	3-2	5-13	13-44	0.36	0.93	0.55	0.22

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