CHAMPION: Hirata Wins Alberta Curling Series

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Kohsuke
Hirata

Third
Shingo
Usui

Second
Ryota
Meguro

Lead
Yoshiya
Miura

Games:	5
Record:	4W - 1L
PF/G:	9.70
PA/G:	7.58
Hammer Efficiency:	0.60
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.60
Steal Efficiency:	0.17

Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) won 8-6 over Andrew Dunbar (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Alberta Curling Series - Event 1, held October 13 - 15 at the Beaumont Curling Club in Beaumont, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Hirata won 6-5 over Scott Webb (Grande Prairie, AB) in the semifinals of the Alberta Curling Series - Event 1 in Beaumont, Alberta, Canada;

Hirata finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hirata defeated Jamie Koe (Yellowknife, NT) 9-5, then went on to lose 6-5 against Dunbar. Hirata responded with a 4-3 win over Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Alberta Curling Series - Event 1 Championship title, Hirata earned 7.500 world rankings points along with the $2,200CDN first prize cheque. Hirata move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 1.5 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 42nd overall with 82.344 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Hirata ranks 33rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 41.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	36	22	0	0.621	9-5	0-3	1-3	1-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	374	313	232	8.37	6.20	2.17	4.71	3.96	1.78	1.57	1.34

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	177	226	46	23	9-0	19-2	40-8	1.28	0.26	0.44	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	197	87	186	27	2-3	6-13	12-36	0.44	0.94	0.54	0.28

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: Kody Hartung
Kody Hartung, Tyler Hartung, Brady Scharback, Brady Kendel
Saskatoon, SK
2021: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Chang-Min Kim, Jae Ik Jeon, Hak Kyun Kim , So Min Yoon
Uiseong, KOR
2019: Jeremy Harty
Jeremy Harty, Kyler Kleibrink, Joel Berger, Kurtis Goller
Calgary, AB
2018: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Jason Ginter, Glenn Venance
Edmonton, AB
2017: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Dean Mamer, Kerr Drummond, Dylan Webster
Airdrie,
2016: Glen Hansen
Glen Hansen, Dean Ross, Don Bartlett, George Parsons
Edmonton, AB
2015: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
, KOR
2014: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Jongduk Park, Taehwan Kim, Minhyeon Yoo
Gang Won, KOR
2013: Ted Appelman
Ted Appelman, Shawn Donnelly, Landon Bucholz, Bryce Bucholz
Edmonton, AB

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