Asanuma Finishes Fourth at Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup

SKIP
Yuki
Asanuma

Third
Ryouma
Ohmori

Second
Kou
Murakami

Lead
Hironori
Higashimoto

Yuki Asanuma (Morioka, JPN) lost 4-3 to Masaki Fujimura (Aomori, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan. of the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan; Yuki Asanuma (Morioka, JPN) lost 4-3 to Masaki Fujimura (Aomori, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan. Asanuma lost 7-5 to Kouki Tonuma (Tokyo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan;

Asanuma finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Asanuma defeated Takuma Makanae (Hokkaido, JPN) 6-4, then went on to lose 5-5 against Hiroki Hasegawa (Tokyo, JPN). Asanuma responded with a 6-4 win over Fujimura in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup, Asanuma take home 1.500 world rankings points. Asanuma gained 2.876 points improving upon their best 2 events, though dropped 300 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 300thplace overall with 2.876 total points. Asanuma ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	4	4	1	0.500	1-1	1-1	0-2	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	70	55	41	7.86	5.86	2.00	4.86	4.43	1.62	1.32	0.71

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	32	37	12	2	1-0	3-0	6-3	1.16	0.38	0.33	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	38	18	29	3	0-0	1-0	3-7	0.47	0.76	0.68	0.34

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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