Shikano Finishes Fourth at 2024 Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup

Tokyo, Japan

SKIP
Daiki
Shikano

Third
Yuuma
Tanabe

Second
Atsuho
Takahashi

Lead
Ryo
Itsubo

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	6.76
PA/G:	7.84
Hammer Efficiency:	0.29
Steal Defense:	0.29
Force Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Efficiency:	0.10

Daiki Shikano (Tokyo, JPN) lost 6-2 to Kaito Fujii (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan. of the 2024 Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan; Daiki Shikano (Tokyo, JPN) lost 6-2 to Kaito Fujii (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan. Shikano lost 6-2 to Takumi Hasegawa (Tokyo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Shikano finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shikano defeated Nobuhito Kasahara (Tokyo, JPN) 8-6, then won 6-5 against Miharu Kubota (Nagano, JPN) and 7-6 against Chikara Segawa (Morioka, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup, Shikano take home 1.500 world rankings points. For week 1 of the event schedule, Shikano did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Shikano ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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Hiroki Hasegawa, Kishiro Kyo, Kantaro Kawano, Kentaro Hashimoto, Shun Takahashi
Sapporo, JPN
2024: Takumi Hasegawa
Takumi Hasegawa, Kishiro Kyo, Ryohei Maruyama, Kentaro Hashimoto, Takumi Tanabe
Tokyo, JPN
2023: Kouki Tonuma
Kouki Tonuma, Shusaku Takata, Hidetake Ohtani, Ken Suehiro
Tokyo, JPN
2019: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Akira Ohtsuka, Manabu Aoki, Naoki Kaneko
Karuizawa, JPN

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