CHAMPION: Miura Wins Japan Intercollegiate Curling Championship

Nayoro, Japan

SKIP
Yuina
Miura

Third
Ai
Matsunaga

Second
Yuuna
Sakuma

Lead
Yuuna
Takahashi

Games:	5
Record:	4W - 1L
PF/G:	9.74
PA/G:	5.26
Hammer Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Efficiency:	0.45

Yuina Miura (Nayoro, JPN) won 5-4 over Wakaha Kawamura (Obihiro, JPN) in the Final of the Japan Intercollegiate Curling Championship, held November 29 - December 3 at the Kitami Curling Club in Kitami, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Miura won 9-2 over Mami Onodera (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals

Miura finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Miura lost 7-5 to Nana Noguchi (Kitami, JPN), then responded with a 8-6 win over Kawamura. Miura won 10-1 against Shiori Nishinaga (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Japan Intercollegiate Curling Championship Championship title, Miura earned 3.750 world rankings points. Miura move up 22 spots after posting a net gain of 2.539 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 148th overall with 9.071 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Miura ranks 151st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 5.438 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	17	14	0	0.548	5-3	7-5	4-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	233	178	167	7.64	7.17	0.47	4.72	4.42	1.62	1.62	0.86

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	112	117	49	10	5-1	8-3	19-5	1.04	0.44	0.31	0.31

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	121	61	118	10	2-1	2-12	8-23	0.50	0.98	0.47	0.36

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