Takahashi3-4 at ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship

SKIP
Kounosuke
Takahashi

Third
Miki
Yamamoto

Second
Syunsuke
Kanagawa

Lead
Tasumi
Tozawa

Kounosuke Takahashi (Nagano, JPN) finished 3-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Takahashi defeated Kouhei Sato (Tohoku, JPN) 5-1, then won 7-5 against Japan's Ryutaro Tani. Takahashi went on to lose 10-2 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN). Takahashi lost 10-0 to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN). Takahashi lost 6-2 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN). Takahashi lost 7-0 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) where Takahashi responded with a 11-3 win over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Takahashi earned 4.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Takahashi move up 94 spots after posting a net gain of 4.156 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 169th overall with 8.625 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Takahashi ranks 167th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	11	8	0	0.579	8-3	3-4	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	144	101	85	7.01	5.90	1.11	4.17	3.61	1.68	1.63	2.22

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	72	65	26	18	2-1	7-0	10-3	0.90	0.36	0.35	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	72	36	59	14	0-2	2-4	6-11	0.50	0.82	0.47	0.36

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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