Sasaki2-3 at 2024 Hack2House Alberta Curling Series Women's Major

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Honoka
Sasaki

Third
Eri
Ogihara

Second
Miki
Hayashi

Lead
Yako
Matsuzawa

Games:	5
Record:	2W - 3L
PF/G:	7.50
PA/G:	6.11
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.25
Force Efficiency:	0.75
Steal Efficiency:	0.35

Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) finished 2-3 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sasaki defeated Nicky Kaufman (Edmonton, AB) 6-3, then went on to lose 4-3 against Eun ji Gim (Gyeonggido, KOR). Sasaki responded with a 8-1 win over Hannah Phillips (Edmonton, AB). Sasaki went on to lose 8-5 against Kate Cameron (St. Adolphe, MB). Sasaki lost 6-5 to Kaufman in their final qualifying round match.

Sasaki earned 2.625 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 8 of the event schedule, Sasaki did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Sasaki 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	14	14	0	0.500	4-0	1-5	2-3	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	196	150	136	7.65	6.94	0.71	4.49	4.44	1.70	1.56	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	100	107	43	11	2-2	8-3	22-4	1.07	0.43	0.36	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	96	43	93	10	2-0	3-9	5-14	0.45	0.97	0.62	0.26

2024: Eun ji Gim
Eun ji Gim, Min Ji Kim, Su ji Kim, Ye eun Seol, Ye ji Seol
Gyeonggido, KOR
2023: Yu Han
Yu Han, Meini Wang, Linyuan Tian, Jiaxin Yu , Xiao Ming Xu
Beijing, CHN
2022: Ikue Kitazawa
Ikue Kitazawa, Seina Nakajima, Minori Suzuki, Hasumi Ishigooka
Nagano, JPN

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