Kitazawa Finishes Fourth at 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Nagano, Japan

SKIP
Ikue
Kitazawa

Third
Seina
Nakajima

Second
Minori
Suzuki

Lead
Hasumi
Ishigooka

Games:	5
Record:	2W - 3L
PF/G:	6.67
PA/G:	6.41
Hammer Efficiency:	0.27
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.63
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) lost 6-5 to Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan. of the 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan; Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) lost 6-5 to Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan. Kitazawa lost 4-2 to Asuka Kanai (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Wakkanai, Japan;

Kitazawa finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kitazawa lost 6-5 to Sae Yamamoto (Sapporo, JPN), then responded with a 7-5 win over Sasaki. Kitazawa won 7-4 against Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Kitazawa take home 7.500 world rankings points, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 32nd place overall with 67.205 total points. Kitazawa ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 18.125 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

2024: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Ami Enami, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka, Yusuke Morozumi
Nagano, JPN
2023: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
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Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Mina Kobayashi, Connor Njegovan
Sapporo, JPN

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