Koana2-4 at 2019 Curling World Cup Jonkoping

Fourth
Junko
Nishimuro

SKIP
Tori
Koana

Second
Yuna
Kotani

Lead
Mao
Ishigaki

Tori Koana (Fujiyoshida, JPN) finished 2-4 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Koana lost 7-5 to Min Ji Kim (chuncheon city, KOR), then responded with a 6-3 win over Sophie Jackson (Stirling, SCO). Koana won 8-5 against Cory Christensen (Chaska, USA). Koana went on to lose 6-3 against Kim. Koana lost 5-4 to Jackson. Koana lost 8-7 to Christensen in their final qualifying round match.

Koana earned 4.730 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 45th place overall with 91.356 total points. Koana ranks 45th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 87.154 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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