Sasaki Finishes Fourth at 2023 ARGO GRAPHICS Cup

SKIP
Honoka
Sasaki

Third
Mari
Motohashi

Second
Miki
Hayashi

Lead
Ayuna
Aoki

Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) lost 6-2 to Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan. of the 2023 ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan; Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) lost 6-2 to Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan. Sasaki lost 5-4 to Sayaka Yoshimura (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2023 ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan;

Sasaki finished 1-1 in the 7-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sasaki lost 7-5 to Fujisawa, then responded with a 13-1 win over Atsuko Ichinaka (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup, Sasaki take home 6.000 world rankings points. Sasaki move up 23 spots after posting a net gain of 5.062 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 93rd overall with 17.701 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sasaki ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 16.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	14	22	0	0.389	3-5	1-6	0-3	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	283	200	216	7.07	7.63	-0.57	4.59	4.77	1.54	1.60	0.64

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	140	150	59	6	3-2	8-3	28-9	1.07	0.42	0.29	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	143	50	157	12	0-2	5-11	6-30	0.35	1.10	0.56	0.24

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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