CHAMPION: Ogihara Wins 2019 Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Ryo
Ogihara

Third
Akira
Ohtsuka

Second
Manabu
Aoki

Lead
Naoki
Kaneko

Games:	5
Record:	5W - 0L
PF/G:	9.14
PA/G:	3.71
Hammer Efficiency:	0.36
Steal Defense:	0.08
Force Efficiency:	0.89
Steal Efficiency:	0.50

Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) won 6-3 over Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Ogihara won 5-1 over Suguru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2019 Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan;

Ogihara finished 3-0 in the 8 team Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup qualifying round, held June 15 - 16, 2019 in , . In their opening game, Ogihara defeated Naomasa Takeda (Sapporo, JPN) 7-5, then won 8-2 against Kyosuke Sawaguchi (Morioka, JPN) and 6-2 against Tomoji Arai (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup Championship title, Ogihara earned 10.595 world rankings points along with the $984CDN first prize cheque. Ogihara gained 14.15 points improving upon their best 2 events, though dropped 165 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 165thplace overall with 14.150 total points. Ogihara ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.595 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	5	0	0	1.000	2-0	3-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	35	32	13	9.14	3.71	5.43	6.00	2.86	1.52	1.30	1.14

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	13	14	1	2	0-0	0-0	4-0	1.08	0.08	0.36	0.08

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	22	18	12	2	0-1	3-0	1-0	0.82	0.55	0.89	0.50

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