CHAMPION: Kasai Wins 2023 Japan Intercollegiate Curling Championship

Fourth
Natsu
Kikuchi

SKIP
Hayaki
Kasai

Second
Genji
Ohara

Lead
Sota
Nagase

Hayaki Kasai (Sapporo, JPN) won 8-4 over Syunta Kobayashi (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the Japan Intercollegiate Curling Championship, held November 29 - December 3, 2023 at the Kitami Curling Club in Kitami, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Kasai won 7-4 over Harunobu Kawahira (Obihiro, JPN) in the semifinals

Kasai finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kasai defeated Kentaro Koike (Hirosaki, JPN) 8-4, then won 9-4 against Kota Kimura (Wakkanai, JPN) and 12-3 against Daichi Sato (Tokyo, JPN). Kasai won 18-0 against Hideaki Kurokawa (Nagano, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Japan Intercollegiate Curling Championship Championship title, Kasai earned 3.750 world rankings points. For week 19 of the event schedule, Kasai did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Kasai 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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