Noguchi Runner-Up at Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Sendai-shi, Japan

SKIP
Kotaro
Noguchi

Third
Yuto
Kamada

Second
Hiroshi
Kato

Lead
Hiromasa
Yonehara

Games:	6
Record:	3W - 3L
PF/G:	6.30
PA/G:	6.52
Hammer Efficiency:	0.22
Steal Defense:	0.17
Force Efficiency:	0.29
Steal Efficiency:	0.23

Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN) lost 6-1 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, held August 7 - 10 at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Stadium in Sapporo, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Noguchi won 10-5 over Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals

Noguchi finished 2-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Noguchi lost 6-4 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN), droppimg another game, 4-3 to Hakjun Kim (Chuncheon, KOR) where Noguchi responded with a 6-5 win over Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN). Noguchi won 5-4 against Rio Hayashi (Hokkaido, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic, Noguchi take home 12.650 world rankings points along with the $4,703CDN prize. For week 3 of the event schedule, Noguchi did not improve upon their best events, dropping from th to 39th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 0.000 total points. Noguchi ranks 5th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.650 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

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: ByeongJin Jeong
ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, MinWoo Kim, Taehwan Kim
Seoul, KOR
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Masaki Iwai
Go Aoki, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Koki Ogiwara, Kei Kamada
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
Gangwon, KOR
2016: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Chris Kennedy, Caleb Boorse
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