Morozumi6-2 at 2023 ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Yuta
Matsumura

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) finished 6-2 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi defeated Ryo Ogihara (Tokyo, JPN) 7-6, then went on to lose 13-4 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN). Morozumi responded with a 9-4 win over Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN). Morozumi won 9-6 against Japan's Kotaro Noguchi. Morozumi went on to lose 8-7 against Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN). Morozumi responded with a 10-2 win over Hiroki Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN). Morozumi won 6-2 against Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN), then won 8-2 against Takanori Ichimura (Nagano, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Morozumi earned 10.500 world rankings points for their Top 4 finish in the ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship. Morozumi move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 5.389 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 38th overall with 101.735 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Morozumi ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 96.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	32	25	0	0.561	8-1	2-3	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	393	322	271	8.19	6.90	1.30	4.96	4.48	1.65	1.54	0.56

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	184	203	74	6	2-2	18-2	40-6	1.10	0.40	0.34	0.31

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	209	119	197	16	1-5	11-14	20-35	0.57	0.94	0.55	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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