CHAMPION: Hasegawa Wins Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup

Sapporo, Japan

SKIP
Hiroki
Hasegawa

Third
Kishiro
Kyo

Second
Kantaro
Kawano

Lead
Kentaro
Hashimoto

Games:	5
Record:	4W - 1L
PF/G:	9.73
PA/G:	6.49
Hammer Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Defense:	0.17
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.21

Hiroki Hasegawa (Sapporo, JPN) won 8-5 over Rio Hayashi (Hokkaido, JPN) in the Final of the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup, held June 7 - 8 in Morioka, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Hasegawa won 12-7 over Chikara Segawa (Morioka, JPN) in the semifinals

Hasegawa finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hasegawa lost 6-2 to Ryo Wakabayashi (Okayama, JPN), then responded with a 10-3 win over Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN). Hasegawa won 4-3 against Naomasa Takeda (Nayoro, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup Championship title, Hasegawa earned 6.750 world rankings points along with the $753CDN first prize cheque. Hasegawa gained 4.141 points improving upon their best 0 events, though dropped 210 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 210thplace overall with 4.141 total points. Hasegawa ranks 544th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	6	4	0	0.600	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	71	67	49	9.44	6.90	2.54	4.79	4.23	1.97	1.63	0.99

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	33	47	12	3	2-0	4-2	8-2	1.42	0.36	0.47	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	38	20	37	4	0-0	2-3	6-7	0.53	0.97	0.58	0.26

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