Hirata Reaches ADVICS Cup Quarters

SKIP
Kohsuke
Hirata

Third
Shingo
Usui

Second
Ryota
Meguro

Lead
Yoshiya
Miura

Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) qualified for the ADVICS Cup playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 5-3 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN). of the ADVICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan;

Hirata finished 2-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hirata defeated Naomasa Takeda (Sapporo, JPN) 7-4, then went on to lose 5-4 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Hirata lost 7-2 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) where Hirata responded with a 8-2 win over Shunta Kobayashi (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Hirata earned 6.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the ADVICS Cup. For week 5 of the event schedule, Hirata did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 42nd place on the World Ranking Standings with 88.625 total points. Hirata ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 33.500 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: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Haruto Ouchi, Shinya Abe, Sota Tsuruga, Makoto Tsuruga, Makoto Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Hayato Sato
Go Aoki, Hayato Sato, Koki Ogiwara, Kazushi Niino, Ayato Sasaki, Takayuki Doi
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi
Nagano, JPN

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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