Sasaki2-5 at ZEH-NOH Japan Curling Championship

SKIP
Honoka
Sasaki

Third
Mari
Motohashi

Second
Miki
Hayashi

Lead
Mayumi
Saito

Honoka Sasaki (Kitami, JPN) finished 2-5 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sasaki lost 8-2 to Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN), droppimg another game, 11-2 to Momoha Tabata (Sapporo, JPN) where Sasaki responded with a 6-5 win over Yui Ozeki (Tokyo, JPN). Sasaki won 10-2 against Kotoka Segawa (Morioka, JPN). Sasaki went on to lose 9-6 against Yuna Kotani (Sapporo, JPN). Sasaki lost 7-3 to Miyu Ueno (Karuizawa, JPN). Sasaki lost 8-4 to Ikue Kitazawa (Nagano, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Sasaki earned 4.125 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Sasaki move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of -7.031 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 50th overall with 54.438 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sasaki ranks 50th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 54.438 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	25	24	0	0.510	5-3	3-6	1-1	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	355	252	259	7.10	7.30	-0.20	4.48	4.70	1.58	1.55	0.82

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	181	185	82	16	3-4	9-5	45-6	1.02	0.45	0.35	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	174	67	177	13	1-2	3-8	12-39	0.39	1.02	0.57	0.26

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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