Bronze for Abe at ARGO GRAPHICS Cup

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Third
Haruto
Ouchi

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Lead
Sota
Tsuruga

Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) won 5-0 over Hayato Sato (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; Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) won 5-0 over Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan. Abe lost 8-5 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Abe finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe defeated Yutaro Kasai (Sapporo, JPN) 9-2, then won 8-0 against Toa Nakahara (Kitami, JPN) and 8-1 against Sato. Abe won 10-1 against Hiroyuki Honda (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup, Abe earn 9.000 world rankings points and 150000CDN. Abe move up 8 spots after posting a net gain of 8.062 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 51st overall with 67.625 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Abe ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 11.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	21	0	0.571	8-2	5-5	3-5	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	360	312	235	8.67	6.53	2.14	4.92	3.97	1.76	1.64	1.11

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	172	231	35	23	4-1	23-1	46-6	1.34	0.20	0.49	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	188	81	200	17	3-3	5-18	10-35	0.43	1.06	0.53	0.28

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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