Yoshioka

SKIP
Hiroki
Yoshioka

Third
Hiromitsu
Fujinaka

Second
Hiroshi
Fukui

Lead
Makoto
Kouhashi

Hiroki Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Yoshioka finished 3-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yoshioka lost 7-3 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Nagano, JPN), droppimg another game, 8-7 to Takuya Ishikawa (Tokyo, JPN) where Yoshioka responded with a 11-1 win over Tomoji Arai (Tokyo, JPN). Yoshioka won 7-4 against Michio Hatano (Chiba, JPN), then won 8-1 against Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Yoshioka earned 2.275 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Yoshioka move up 141 spots after posting a net gain of 2.093 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 367th overall with 2.639 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yoshioka ranks 340th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.275 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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