Einarson Runner-Up at 2022 Karuizawa International

SKIP
Kerri
Einarson

Third
Val
Sweeting

Second
Shannon
Birchard

Lead
Briane
Harris

Kerri Einarson (Gimli, MB) lost 6-3 to Eunjung Kim (Gangneung , KOR) in the Final of the Karuizawa International, held December 16 - 18, 2022 in Karuizawa, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Einarson won 4-3 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2022 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan;

Einarson finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Einarson lost 7-5 to Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN), then responded with a 6-3 win over Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN). Einarson won 9-7 against Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Karuizawa International, Einarson take home 24.750 world rankings points along with the $4,018CDN prize, remaining in 1st place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 3.5 after improving upon their best so far this season. Einarson ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 229.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	64	26	0	0.711	23-3	11-8	6-4	5-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	733	641	455	8.74	6.21	2.54	4.99	4.11	1.75	1.51	0.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	353	462	82	34	12-4	29-1	107-5	1.31	0.23	0.46	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	380	179	373	32	5-7	12-20	29-73	0.47	0.98	0.58	0.29

2023: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka, Ami Enami
Nagano, JPN
2022: Eunjung Kim
Eunjung Kim, Kyeongae Kim, Chohi Kim, Seonyeong Kim, Yeongmi Kim, Myungsup Lim
Gangneung , KOR
2019: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Julia Portunova, Olga Kotelnikova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2018: Anna Sidorova
Anna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Julia Portunova, Julia Guzieva , Svetlana Kalalb
Moscow, RUS
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min-Ji Um, Seul-Bee Lee, Yoon-Jung Yeom, Ye eun Seol
Gyeonggi-do, KOR
2015: Ayumi Ogasawara
Ayumi Ogasawara, Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Fuji Miki
Sapporo, JPN
2014: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB
2013: Binia Feltscher
Binia Feltscher, Irene Schori, Franziska Kaufmann, Christine Urech
Flims, SUI

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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