Sasaki2-2 at 2023 Alberta Curling Series

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Honoka
Sasaki

Third
Mari
Motohashi

Second
Miki
Hayashi

Lead
Mayumi
Saito

Games:	4
Record:	2W - 2L
PF/G:	9.33
PA/G:	7.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Defense:	0.33
Force Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Efficiency:	0.33

Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) finished 2-2 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sasaki lost 9-6 to Miyu Ueno (Karuizawa, JPN), then responded with a 6-4 win over Kaitlyn Bowman (Calgary , AB). Sasaki went on to lose 8-7 against Jessica Wytrychowski (Edmonton, AB). Sasaki responded with a 9-0 win over Cathy Borys (Calgary, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Sasaki earned 1.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 15 of the event schedule, Sasaki did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 48th to 49th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 66.766 total points. Sasaki ranks 42nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 38.875 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	25	24	0	0.510	5-3	3-6	1-1	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	355	252	259	7.10	7.30	-0.20	4.48	4.70	1.58	1.55	0.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	181	185	82	16	3-4	9-5	45-6	1.02	0.45	0.35	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	174	67	177	13	1-2	3-8	12-39	0.39	1.02	0.57	0.26

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