Balsdon4-1 at 2019 CurlON Men's Cash Spiel

Toronto, Ontario

SKIP
Greg
Balsdon

Third
Chris
Gardner

Second
Brad
Kidd

Lead
Andrew
Denny-Petch

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	6.96
PA/G:	5.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.46
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.71
Steal Efficiency:	0.23

Greg Balsdon (Toronto, ON) finished 4-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balsdon lost 8-7 to Charlie Richard (London, ON), then responded with a 5-4 win over John Willsey (Waterloo, ON). Balsdon won 5-2 against 's Richard Krell, then won 4-2 against Wayne Tuck Jr. (Strathroy, ON) and 6-5 against Richard in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the CurlON Men's Cash Spiel - Leaside Championship title, Balsdon earned 20.348 world rankings points along with the $2,800CDN first prize cheque, moving up 27 spots the World Ranking Standings into 72nd place overall with 60.754 total points. Balsdon ranks 100th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 34.446 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong, Hardline Curling) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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