Sato Finishes Fourth at ARGO GRAPHICS Cup

Fourth
Go
Aoki

SKIP
Hayato
Sato

Second
Koki
Ogiwara

Lead
Kazushi
Niino

Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) lost 5-0 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan. of the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan; Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) lost 5-0 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan. Sato lost 4-3 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan;

Sato finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sato defeated Hiroyuki Honda (Kitami, JPN) 10-2, then won 6-2 against Toa Nakahara (Kitami, JPN) and 5-2 against Yutaro Kasai (Sapporo, JPN). Sato went on to lose 8-1 against Abe in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup, Sato take home 8.000 world rankings points along with 50000CDN. For week 4 of the event schedule, Sato did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 38th to 39th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 92.000 total points. Sato ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 25.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	25	27	0	0.481	6-3	3-12	2-3	0-0	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	391	259	277	6.62	7.08	-0.46	4.09	4.22	1.62	1.68	1.69

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	190	196	69	31	2-2	15-5	43-10	1.03	0.36	0.38	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	201	63	208	35	3-3	2-18	6-40	0.31	1.03	0.50	0.22

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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