Balsdon4-5 at 2019 Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Greg
Balsdon

Third
Chris
Gardner

Second
Brad
Kidd

Lead
Andrew
Denny-Petch

Greg Balsdon (Kingston, ON) finished 4-5 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balsdon lost 7-5 to Pat Ferris (Grimsby, ON), then responded with a 7-2 win over Rob Retchless (Toronto, ON). Balsdon won 7-4 against Mark Bice (Sarnia, ON). Balsdon went on to lose 7-6 against John Epping (Toronto, ON). Balsdon lost 9-1 to Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene, ON) where Balsdon responded with a 9-5 win over Colin Dow (Ottawa, ON). Balsdon went on to lose 8-4 against Scott McDonald (Kingston, ON). Balsdon lost 10-5 to Charley Thomas (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON) where Balsdon responded with a 10-6 win over Dayna Deruelle (Harriston, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Balsdon earned 6.377 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 10 spots the World Ranking Standings into 83rd place overall with 49.592 total points. Balsdon ranks 91st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 40.823 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

Quebec's Jean-Michel Menard (Photo: Curling Canada) defeated Japan's Shinya Abe 4-2 to open the Stu Sells Toronto Tankard with a win.

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