CHAMPION: Tabata Wins 2024 Hokkaido Curling Championships

SKIP
Momoha
Tabata

Third
Miku
Nihira

Second
Sae
Yamamoto

Lead
Mikoto
Nakajima

Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN) won 10-3 over Mayu Minami (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the Hokkaido Curling Championships, held December 6 - 12, 2023 in Sapporo, Japan.

Tabata finished 7-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tabata defeated Wakaba Kawamura (Obihiro, JPN) 5-4, then won 9-3 against Miyuki Kawamura (Hokkaido, JPN) and 8-2 against Atsuki Akimoto (Hokkaido, JPN). Tabata won 12-0 against Hazuki Kimura (Kitami, JPN), then won 6-5 against Minami and 8-2 against Kohane Tsuruga (Sapporo, JPN). Tabata won 6-2 against Yuina Miura (Nayoro, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Hokkaido Curling Championships Championship title, Tabata earned 3.750 world rankings points. For week 21 of the event schedule, Tabata did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 45th place on the World Ranking Standings with 71.403 total points. Tabata ranks 40th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 59.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	50	25	0	0.667	18-1	12-5	6-1	3-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	572	446	341	7.80	5.96	1.84	4.77	4.06	1.63	1.47	1.17

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	268	288	96	28	6-3	19-5	53-10	1.07	0.36	0.33	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	304	158	245	39	2-3	11-9	30-52	0.52	0.81	0.61	0.33

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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