Iwanaga

SKIP
Naoki
Iwanaga

Third
Junpei
Kanda

Second
Shota
Iino

Lead
Shotaro
Hashimoto

Naoki Iwanaga (Tokyo, JPN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Iwanaga finished 4-4 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Iwanaga lost 8-2 to Ryuji Shibatani (Kitami, JPN), then responded with a 11-2 win over Kazuto Funaki (Aomori, JPN). Iwanaga went on to lose 10-6 against Kouji Tsuruga (Kitami, JPN). Iwanaga responded with a 9-4 win over Japan's Doi Homaretoru. Iwanaga went on to lose 9-8 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Iwanaga responded with a 7-3 win over Hironori Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN). Iwanaga went on to lose 10-7 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN). Iwanaga responded with a 11-9 win over Japan's Ryo Ogihara in their final qualifying round match.

Iwanaga earned 0.733 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 164 spots the World Ranking Standings into 356th place overall with 0.733 total points. Iwanaga ranks 306th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.733 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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