CHAMPION: Koana Wins 2022 Kanto Curling Championships

SKIP
Tori
Koana

Third
Yuna
Kotani

Second
Mao
Ishigaki

Lead
Arisa
Kotani

Tori Koana (Fujiyoshida, JPN) won 7-4 over Akane Suzuki (Kanagawa, JPN) in the Final of the Kanto Curling Championships, held January 14 - 16, 2022 in Kanto, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Koana won 11-1 over Sayuri Matsuhashi (Tokyo, JPN) in the semifinals

Koana finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Koana defeated Japan's Ayako Tanimoto 11-2, then won 8-1 against Japan's Asami Sasada and 14-0 against Ayumi Yokota (Chiba, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Kanto Curling Championships Championship title, Koana earned 6.188 world rankings points, moving up 6 spots the World Ranking Standings into 43rd place overall with 80.640 total points. Koana ranks 65th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 37.344 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	16	11	0	0.593	6-5	0-2	1-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	208	175	132	8.41	6.35	2.07	5.19	3.89	1.62	1.63	0.91

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	97	107	25	8	3-0	2-1	23-3	1.10	0.26	0.31	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	111	68	107	11	5-3	1-8	10-21	0.61	0.96	0.48	0.35

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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