Tanaka Reaches King Cash Spiel Semifinals

Kamloops, British Columbia

SKIP
Cody
Tanaka

Third
Jared
Kolomaya

Second
Mitchell
Kopytko

Lead
Coburn
Fadden

Games:	5
Record:	4W - 1L
PF/G:	9.17
PA/G:	5.56
Hammer Efficiency:	0.56
Steal Defense:	0.25
Force Efficiency:	0.75
Steal Efficiency:	0.19

Cody Tanaka (Kamloops, BC) run at the King Cash Spiel came to an end in the semifinals with a 5-4 loss to Matthew Blandford (Vancouver, BC). of the King Cash Spiel in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada; Tanaka advanced through the quarterfinals with a 9-4 win over British Columbia's Jay Wakefield.

Tanaka finished 3-0 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tanaka defeated British Columbia's Patrick Prade 7-5, then won 7-3 against Richard Krell (Langley, BC) and 6-3 against Cameron de Jong (Victoria, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

Tanaka earned 5.525 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the King Cash Spiel, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 106th place overall with 20.386 total points. Tanaka ranks 95th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.050 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	13	13	0	0.500	1-2	0-1	0-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	181	143	124	7.90	6.85	1.05	4.59	4.31	1.72	1.59	1.11

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	84	109	30	7	5-1	9-1	19-5	1.30	0.36	0.43	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	97	34	94	13	0-3	0-5	8-16	0.35	0.97	0.59	0.27

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