Ogihara1-4 at 2019 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

SKIP
Ryo
Ogihara

Third
Akira
Ohtsuka

Second
Manabu
Aoki

Lead
Naoki
Kaneko

Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 1-4 in the 12 team Obihiro ICE Gold Cup qualifying round, held September 20 - 22, 2019 in , . In their opening game, Ogihara lost 8-5 to Suguru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN), droppimg another game, 6-3 to Kenji Takamatsu (Sapporo, JPN). Ogihara lost 7-2 to Shingo Usui (Kitami, JPN) where Ogihara responded with a 9-2 win over Keisaku Takada (Kitami, JPN). Ogihara went on to lose 10-2 against Yoshiaki Sakaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Ogihara earned 0.601 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, dropping 3 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 173rd place overall with 14.751 total points. Ogihara ranks 64th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 11.196 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	1	4	0	0.200	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	35	21	33	6.00	9.43	-3.43	3.71	6.29	1.62	1.50	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	21	17	13	0	0-0	1-0	4-3	0.81	0.62	0.24	0.48

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	14	4	20	0	0-0	0-2	2-4	0.29	1.43	0.50	0.14

Steffen Walstad (photo by Anil Mungal), with new team in tow, finished 4-0 in the elite division while Alexander Lindstroem wins main event title.

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