Balderston1-3 at 2019 Avonair Cash Spiel

SKIP
Kurt
Balderston

Third
Glen
Hansen

Second
Rob
Bucholz

Lead
Del
Shaughnessy

Kurt Balderston (Edmonton , AB) finished 1-3 in the 23-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balderston defeated Warren Cross (Edmonton, AB) 9-6, then went on to lose 7-5 against Ted Appelman (Edmonton, AB). Balderston lost 8-6 to Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB). Balderston lost 5-2 to Kevin Tym (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Balderston earned 1.245 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Balderston move up 4 spots after posting a net gain of -0.385 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 177th overall with 15.917 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Balderston ranks 179th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.245 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

2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: Kody Hartung
Kody Hartung, Tyler Hartung, Brady Scharback, Brady Kendel
Saskatoon, SK
2021: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Chang-Min Kim, Jae Ik Jeon, Hak Kyun Kim , So Min Yoon
Uiseong, KOR
2019: Jeremy Harty
Jeremy Harty, Kyler Kleibrink, Joel Berger, Kurtis Goller
Calgary, AB
2018: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Jason Ginter, Glenn Venance
Edmonton, AB
2017: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Dean Mamer, Kerr Drummond, Dylan Webster
Airdrie,
2016: Glen Hansen
Glen Hansen, Dean Ross, Don Bartlett, George Parsons
Edmonton, AB
2015: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
, KOR
2014: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Jongduk Park, Taehwan Kim, Minhyeon Yoo
Gang Won, KOR
2013: Ted Appelman
Ted Appelman, Shawn Donnelly, Landon Bucholz, Bryce Bucholz
Edmonton, AB

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