Balsdon2-3 at 2018 Dairy Farmers of Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Greg
Balsdon

Third
Don
Bowser

Second
Jonathan
Beuk

Lead
Scott
Chadwick

Greg Balsdon (Kingston, ON) finished 2-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balsdon lost 10-4 to Mark Kean (Woodstock, ON), then responded with a 9-7 win over Sebastien Robillard (Ottawa, ON). Balsdon went on to lose 7-5 against Mark Bice (Sarnia, ON). Balsdon responded with a 7-2 win over Rob Retchless (Toronto, ON). Balsdon went on to lose 7-6 against Codey Maus (London, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Balsdon earned 2.118 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 26 of the event schedule, Balsdon did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 22nd place on the World Ranking Standings with 299.139 total points. Balsdon ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 133.531 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

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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