Balsdon3-0 at Dairy Farmers of Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Greg
Balsdon

Third
Don
Bowser

Second
Jonathan
Beuk

Lead
Scott
Chadwick

Greg Balsdon (Kingston, ON) finished 3-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balsdon defeated Brandon Tippin (Owen Sound, ON) 6-2, then won 7-5 against Mike McLean (Ottawa, ON) and 8-1 against Mark Kean (Woodstock, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Dairy Farmers of Ontario Tankard - Qualifier A Championship title, Balsdon earned 18.988 world rankings points. Balsdon move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 16.796 points improving upon their best results so far this season, ranking 22nd overall with 299.139 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Balsdon ranks 19th 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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