Morozumi2-2 at 2022 Japan World Championship Trials

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Masaki
Iwai

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 2-2 in the 3-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi lost 6-5 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN), droppimg another game, 10-7 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) where Morozumi responded with a 9-5 win over Yamaguchi. Morozumi won 10-4 against Maeda in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Japan World Championship Trials, Morozumi take home 5.486 world rankings points, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 59th place overall with 70.340 total points. Morozumi ranks 133rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 14.891 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	17	8	0	0.680	1-3	1-0	0-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	197	220	114	11.17	5.79	5.38	5.79	3.65	1.93	1.58	0.56

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	87	128	19	7	5-0	10-1	24-3	1.47	0.22	0.49	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	110	92	95	4	4-0	5-11	21-15	0.84	0.86	0.55	0.44

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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