Japan's Kantaro Kawano1-3 at ARGO GRAPHICS Cup

SKIP
Kantaro
Kawano

Third
Kazaki
Matsuoka

Second
Shun
Takahashi

Lead
Genji
Ohara

Japan's Kantaro Kawano finished 1-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Kantaro Kawano lost 8-3 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN), droppimg another game, 7-4 to Ryo Aoki (Sapporo, JPN). Japan's Kantaro Kawano lost 9-5 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) where Japan's Kantaro Kawano responded with a 7-5 win over Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Kantaro Kawano earned 0.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 58 spots the World Ranking Standings into 389th place overall with 1.313 total points. Japan's Kantaro Kawano ranks 49th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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