CHAMPION: Tabata Wins 2024 Saville Shootout

Sapporo, Japan

SKIP
Momoha
Tabata

Third
Miku
Nihira

Second
Sae
Yamamoto

Lead
Mikoto
Nakajima

Games:	8
Record:	7W - 1L
PF/G:	10.70
PA/G:	5.44
Hammer Efficiency:	0.46
Steal Defense:	0.14
Force Efficiency:	0.59
Steal Efficiency:	0.31

Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN) won 7-5 over Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in the Final of the Saville Shootout, held September 5 - 8, 2024 at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Tabata won 7-4 over Kaitlyn Lawes (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2024 Saville Shootout in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and won 8-5 over Eun ji Gim (Gyeonggido, KOR) in the quarterfinals. of the 2024 Saville Shootout in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Tabata finished 4-1 in the 20-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tabata defeated Jessica McCartney (Saskatoon, SK) 9-2, then went on to lose 4-3 against Gim. Tabata responded with a 10-8 win over Jolene Campbell (Regina, SK). Tabata won 8-1 against Kate Cameron (St. Adolphe, MB), then won 9-2 against Robyn Silvernagle (Sexsmith, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Saville Shootout Championship title, Tabata earned 48.750 world rankings points along with the $6,000CDN first prize cheque. For week 6 of the event schedule, Tabata did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Tabata 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
2025	62	38	0	0.620	12-5	6-6	0-3	0-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	720	624	417	8.67	5.79	2.88	4.76	3.97	1.82	1.46	1.26

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	347	422	95	48	16-1	25-2	90-18	1.22	0.27	0.44	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	373	202	322	43	8-3	17-16	28-64	0.54	0.86	0.62	0.31

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2022: Jennifer Jones
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2021: Eunjung Kim
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2019: Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris
Winnipeg, MB
2018: Casey Scheidegger
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Lethbridge, AB
2017: Eve Muirhead
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2016: Casey Scheidegger
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Lethbridge, AB
2015: Val Sweeting
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Edmonton, AB
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2013: Crystal Rumberg
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Calgary, AB
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Winnipeg, MB
2011: Stefanie Lawton
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2010: Heather Nedohin
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Edmonton, AB
2009: Cathy King
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Edmonton, AB
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2007: Bingyu Wang
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Harbin, CHN
2006: Renee Sonnenberg
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Grande Prairie, AB

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