Koana1-2 at 2017 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Fourth
Junko
Nishimuro

SKIP
Tori
Koana

Second
Yuna
Kotani

Lead
Mao
Ishigaki

Tori Koana (Yamanashi, JPN) finished 1-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Koana lost 7-2 to Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN), droppimg another game, 8-4 to Min Ji Kim (Gyeongido, KOR) where Koana responded with a 5-3 win over Chiaki Matsumura (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Koana earned 0.952 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 71st place overall with 37.436 total points. Koana ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.952 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: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Yuna Kotani, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Mina Kobayashi, Yumie Funayama
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura, Kaho Onodera, Anna Ohmiya, Yumie Funayama, Mina Kobayashi, Connor Njegovan
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Yilun Jiang
Yilun Jiang, Lijun Zhang, Ziqi Dong, Xindi Jiang
Beijing, CHN
2018: Min Ji Kim
Min Ji Kim, Hyerin Kim, Taei Yang, Sujin Kim
chuncheon city, KOR
2017: Satsuki Fujisawa
Satsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi
Kitami, JPN
2016: Chelsea Carey
Chelsea Carey, Amy Nixon, Jocelyn Peterman, Laine Peters
Calgary, CAN

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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