Kawano4-1 at Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

Sapporo, Japan

SKIP
Kantaro
Kawano

Third
Kazaki
Matsuoka

Second
Hiroki
Hasegawa

Lead
Yusuke
Yamashita

Games:	7
Record:	5W - 2L
PF/G:	8.43
PA/G:	5.69
Hammer Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Defense:	0.31
Force Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Efficiency:	0.40

Kantaro Kawano (Sapporo, JPN) finished 4-1 in the 12 team Obihiro ICE Gold Cup qualifying round, held September 20 - 22 in , . In their opening game, Kawano defeated Tsubasa Nakagawa (Obihiro, JPN) 8-3, then won 6-0 against Takimi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) and 5-4 against Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN). Kawano won 8-2 against Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN). Kawano went on to lose 7-4 against Naomasa Takeda (Nayoro, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Kawano ranks 219th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	5	2	0	0.714	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2020	51	43	29	8.43	5.69	2.75	4.90	3.92	1.72	1.45	1.18

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	26	27	10	3	0-0	4-1	4-0	1.04	0.38	0.35	0.31

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	25	16	19	3	1-0	0-2	3-3	0.64	0.76	0.58	0.40

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