Yanagisawa Runner-Up at 2022 S3 Group Curling Stadium Series

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Riku
Yanagisawa

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	8.78
PA/G:	6.34
Hammer Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Defense:	0.15
Force Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 9-2 to Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK) in the Final of the S3 Group Curling Stadium Series, held October 7 - 10, 2022 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. To advance to the championship game, Yanagisawa won 7-4 over ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR) in the semifinals of the 2022 S3 Group Curling Stadium Series in Swift Current, Saskatchewan; and won 8-4 over Scott Manners (Lloydminster, SK) in the quarterfinals.

Yanagisawa finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yanagisawa defeated Josh Heidt (Kerrobert , SK) 7-0, then won 6-5 against Manners and 6-4 against Jesse St. John (Swift Current, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the S3 Group Curling Stadium Series, Yanagisawa take home 16.500 world rankings points along with the $1,700CDN prize. Yanagisawa move up 26 spots after posting a net gain of 15.753 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 33rd overall with 77.989 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yanagisawa ranks 14th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 63.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	64	31	0	0.674	10-6	13-10	8-3	1-0	2-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	720	556	447	7.72	6.21	1.51	4.58	3.93	1.68	1.58	1.49

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	344	427	79	43	10-1	28-5	96-9	1.24	0.23	0.45	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	376	129	368	64	1-10	6-21	28-66	0.34	0.98	0.57	0.23

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