Hirata1-2 at Karuizawa International

SKIP
Kohsuke
Hirata

Third
Shingo
Usui

Second
Ryota
Meguro

Lead
Yoshiya
Miura

Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) finished 1-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hirata lost 9-2 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL), droppimg another game, 10-4 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) where Hirata responded with a 8-1 win over Soo-Hyuk Kim (Gyeongbuk, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.

Hirata earned 1.313 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Hirata gained -0.515 points improving upon their best 6 events, though dropped 4 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 46thplace overall with 86.047 total points. Hirata ranks 41st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 65.375 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: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker , Siyu Liu
St. John's, NL
2022: Riku Yanagisawa
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Mike McEwen, Matt Wozniak, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, CAN
2017: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Tetsuro Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Kosuke Morozumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Aberdeen, SCO
2015: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2014: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2013: Chang-Min Kim
Chang-Min Kim, Min-Chan Kim, Se-Hyun Sung, Young-Seon Seo, Eun Soo Oh
Gyeongbuk Uiseong, KOR

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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