Noguchi Runner-Up at Tohoku Curling Championships

SKIP
Kotaro
Noguchi

Third
Yuto
Kamada

Second
Hiroshi
Kato

Lead
Yuuki
Yoshimura

Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN) lost 8-6 to Kouhei Sato (Tohoku, JPN) in the Final of the Tohoku Curling Championships, held December 8 - 12 in Tohoku, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Noguchi won 11-6 over Chikara Segawa (Morioka, JPN) in the semifinals of the Tohoku Curling Championships in Tohoku, Japan;

Noguchi finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Noguchi defeated Kazuhito Hunaki (Tohoku, JPN) 8-7, then won 10-4 against Kenji Kawamori (Tohoku, JPN) and 9-8 against Yasuhiro Sano (Tohoku, JPN). Noguchi went on to lose 5-4 against Yuun Ishimura (Aomori, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Tohoku Curling Championships, Noguchi take home 2.750 world rankings points, moving up 20 spots the World Ranking Standings into 142nd place overall with 15.625 total points. Noguchi ranks 163rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.938 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	10	11	0	0.476	1-0	4-2	2-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	153	124	130	8.10	8.50	-0.39	4.77	4.58	1.70	1.86	0.65

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	74	98	25	5	5-0	5-2	20-5	1.32	0.34	0.43	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	79	26	105	5	1-5	0-8	2-18	0.33	1.33	0.43	0.25

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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