Kitazawa Runner-Up at 2022 Curling Stadium Alberta Curling Series #4

SKIP
Ikue
Kitazawa

Third
Seina
Nakajima

Second
Minori
Suzuki

Lead
Hasumi
Ishigooka

Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) lost 6-5 to Nicky Kaufman (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Curling Stadium Alberta Curling Series #4, held November 4 - 6, 2022 at the Leduc Curling Club in Leduc, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Kitazawa won 8-5 over Kim Rhyme (St. Paul, MN) in the semifinals

Kitazawa finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kitazawa defeated Claire Booth (Sherwood Park, AB) 11-0, then won 7-4 against Kaufman and 7-1 against Adele Purcell (St Albert, AB). Kitazawa won 8-2 against Michelle Hartwell (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Curling Stadium Alberta Curling Series #4, Kitazawa take home 13.750 world rankings points along with the $1,650CDN prize. Kitazawa move up 6 spots after posting a net gain of 11.07 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 18th overall with 127.720 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kitazawa ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 95.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	46	24	0	0.657	12-1	7-6	1-2	0-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	507	474	306	9.35	6.04	3.31	5.31	3.93	1.76	1.54	0.77

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	233	303	74	19	13-0	20-6	60-9	1.30	0.32	0.43	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	274	171	232	20	5-1	8-20	31-43	0.62	0.85	0.56	0.39

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