CHAMPION: Balderston Wins 2015 Dawson Creek Cash Spiel

Grande Prairie, Alberta

SKIP
Kurt
Balderston

Third
Les
Sonnenberg

Second
Rob
Bucholz

Lead
Del
Shaughnessy

Games:	6
Record:	6W - 0L
PF/G:	11.21
PA/G:	2.42
Hammer Efficiency:	0.73
Steal Defense:	0.08
Force Efficiency:	0.83
Steal Efficiency:	0.48

Kurt Balderston (Grande Prairie, AB) won 5-1 over Thomas Scoffin (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Dawson Creek Cash Spiel, held November 27 - 29, 2015 in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. To advance to the championship game, Balderston won 7-1 over Graham Powell (Grande Prairie, AB) in the semifinals of the 2015 Dawson Creek Cash Spiel in Dawson Creek, British Columbia; and won 6-1 over Darrel Veiner (Dawson Creek, BC) in the quarterfinals. of the 2015 Dawson Creek Cash Spiel in Dawson Creek, British Columbia;

Balderston finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balderston defeated Roland Robinson (Edmonton, AB) 7-3, then won 6-0 against Warren Cross (Edmonton, AB) and 6-2 against Kevin Hrab (Fort St. John, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Dawson Creek Cash Spiel Championship title, Balderston earned 10.500 world rankings points along with the $2,500CDN first prize cheque, moving up 82 spots the World Ranking Standings into 163rd place overall with 16.013 total points. Balderston ranks 149th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.500 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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