Balsdon5-1 at Ontario Tankard

SKIP
Greg
Balsdon

Third
Jordan
Keon

Second
Curtis
Samoy

Lead
Trevor
Talbott

Greg Balsdon (Richmond Hill, ON) finished 5-1 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balsdon lost 6-2 to Mac Calwell (Belleville, ON), then responded with a 9-2 win over Randy Hansuld (Mississauga, ON). Balsdon won 5-3 against Matt Dupuis (cornwall, ON), then won 7-6 against Ian Dickie (Kitchener, ON) and 8-4 against Dayna Deruelle (Harriston, ON) to advance to the B-Qualifier where they 6-5 against Calwell to advance to the playoff round. in their final qualifying round match.

Balsdon earned 4.250 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Ontario Tankard - Open Qualifier, moving up 45 spots the World Ranking Standings into 170th place overall with 11.078 total points. Balsdon ranks 141st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	10	6	0	0.625	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	126	90	74	7.14	5.87	1.27	4.44	4.05	1.61	1.45	1.51

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	64	69	19	9	3-0	3-2	13-1	1.08	0.30	0.35	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	62	21	55	10	0-0	2-2	2-14	0.34	0.89	0.57	0.24

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