CHAMPION: Ballance Wins 2019 North Hill Thanksgiving U18 Bonspiel

Okotokes, Alberta

SKIP
James
Ballance

Third
Ayden
Whittmire

Second
Ethan
Drysdale

Lead
Justin
Murray

Games:	3
Record:	3W - 0L
PF/G:	10.00
PA/G:	4.78
Hammer Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Defense:	0.00
Force Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Efficiency:	0.44

James Ballance (Okotokes, AB) won 5-2 over Kyler Kurina (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the North Hill Thanksgiving U18 Bonspiel, held October 10 - 13, 2019 at the North Hill Curling Club in Calgary, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Ballance won 11-4 over Marcus Sawiak (Sherwood Park, AB) in the semifinals

Ballance are currently 1-0 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ballance defeated Wyatt Wright (Cochrane, AB) 7-5. In their next game, Ballance plays Kurina on Saturday at 1:30pm and Alberta's Ben Kiist at 8:30pm.

. For week 12 of the event schedule, Ballance did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Ballance ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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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