Matsumura3-1 at 2019 CAMERON'S Brewing Oakville Fall Classic

SKIP
Yuta
Matsumura

Third
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Second
Yasumasa
Tanida

Lead
Shinya
Abe

Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN) finished 3-1 in the 28-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Matsumura defeated Yusuke Morozumi (Nagano, JPN) 6-4, then won 5-4 against Lucien Lottenbach (Zug, SUI) and 7-3 against Steve Holdaway (Montreal , QC). Matsumura went on to lose 6-4 against Jan Hess (Zug, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

The berth into the first round of the CAMERON'S Brewing Oakville Fall Classic playoffs earned Matsumura 7.032 world rankings points. For week 6 of the event schedule, Matsumura did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 16th place on the World Ranking Standings with 252.993 total points. Matsumura ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 51.968 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

2019: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2018: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2016: Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Kyle Waddell, Cameron Smith
Stirling, SCO
2015: Codey Maus
Scott McDonald, Codey Maus, Wesley Forget, Jeff Grant, Brian Chick
London, ON

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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