CHAMPION: Yoshimura Wins 2023 Alberta Curling Series

Sapporo, Japan

SKIP
Sayaka
Yoshimura

Third
Yuna
Kotani

Second
Kaho
Onodera

Lead
Anna
Ohmiya

Games:	6
Record:	6W - 0L
PF/G:	11.54
PA/G:	4.62
Hammer Efficiency:	0.62
Steal Defense:	0.07
Force Efficiency:	0.25
Steal Efficiency:	0.54

Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) won 6-4 over Miyu Ueno (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final of the Alberta Curling Series - Event 2, held November 3 - 5, 2023 at the Beaumont Curling Club in Beaumont, Canada. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Yoshimura won 6-3 over Nicky Kaufman (Edmonton, AB) to advance to the championship game. of the 2023 Alberta Curling Series - Event 2 in Beaumont, Alberta, Canada; of the 2023 Alberta Curling Series - Event 2 in Beaumont, Alberta, Canada;

Yoshimura finished 4-0 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshimura defeated Trina Ball (Edmonton, AB) 7-0, then won 7-5 against Brette Richards (Prince George, BC) and 10-6 against Melissa Pierce (Edmonton , AB). Yoshimura won 9-0 against Tiffany Steuber (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Alberta Curling Series - Event 2 Championship title, Yoshimura earned 15.000 world rankings points along with the $3,000CDN first prize cheque. For week 15 of the event schedule, Yoshimura did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 21st place on the World Ranking Standings with 161.680 total points. Yoshimura ranks 18th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 83.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	61	22	0	0.735	20-4	14-4	4-3	0-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	596	539	331	9.04	5.55	3.49	5.17	3.76	1.75	1.48	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	265	342	66	30	10-1	23-2	76-9	1.29	0.25	0.46	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	331	197	265	34	5-2	15-12	26-61	0.60	0.80	0.57	0.37

2023: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Nicky Kaufman
Nicky Kaufman, Jennifer Van Wieren, Megan Anderson, Holly Baird, Pam Appelman
Edmonton, AB
2021: Casey Scheidegger
Casey Scheidegger, Cary-Anne McTaggart, Jessie Haughian, Kristie Moore
Lethbridge, AB

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