Morozumi5-6 at 2015 World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 5-6 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi defeated Evgeniy Arkhipov (Moscow, RUS) 7-4, then won 9-3 against Ewan MacDonald (Perth, SCO). Morozumi went on to lose 8-5 against Jiri Snitil (Prague, CZE). Morozumi responded with a 9-5 win over Jia Liang Zang (Harbin, CHN). Morozumi went on to lose 5-4 against Aku Kauste (Helsinki, FIN). Morozumi responded with a 8-1 win over Joel Retornaz (Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA). Morozumi went on to lose 7-4 against Pat Simmons (Calgary, CAN). Morozumi lost 9-2 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Morozumi lost 8-6 to John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Morozumi lost 10-8 to Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR) where Morozumi responded with a 9-6 win over Marc Pfister (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Morozumi earned 10.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 22nd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 8.295 after improving upon their best so far this season. Morozumi ranks 22nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 59.668 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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