Blandford4-1 at BC Mens - Island Playdowns

SKIP
Matthew
Blandford

Third
Chris
Baier

Second
Derek
Ryan

Lead
Cal
Jackson

Matthew Blandford (Victoria, BC) finished 4-1 in the 4-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Blandford lost 8-3 to Glen Jackson (Victoria, BC), then responded with a 7-6 win over Neil Dangerfield (Victoria, BC). Blandford won 12-5 against Jason Montgomery (Victoria, BC), then won 4-3 against Jackson and 11-5 against Jackson in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the BC Mens - Island Playdowns Championship title, Blandford earned 3.375 world rankings points. Blandford move up 14 spots after posting a net gain of 1.851 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 183rd overall with 17.671 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Blandford ranks 187th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 11.574 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

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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