Ballance4-3 at Boston Pizza Men's Provincial Qualifier

SKIP
James
Ballance

Third
Beau
Cornelson

Second
Nathan
Kelba

Lead
Chris
Pratt

James Ballance (Okotoks/Edmonton, AB) finished 4-3 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ballance defeated Craig MacAlpine (Edmonton, AB) 11-7, then went on to lose 9-8 against Ben Kiist (Edmonton, AB). Ballance lost 5-4 to Kenan Wipf (Calgary, AB) where Ballance responded with a 8-3 win over Dwayne Romanchuk (Airdrie, AB). Ballance won 6-5 against Jared Jenkins (Calgary, AB), then won 10-6 against Wipf to advance to a C-Qualifier game where they lost 7-6 against Rob Johnson (Calgary, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Ballance earned 0.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 117th place overall with 19.417 total points. Ballance ranks 108th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 15.376 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	12	33	0	0.267	3-2	1-7	1-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	341	209	296	6.13	8.68	-2.55	4.11	4.90	1.49	1.77	1.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	172	167	78	16	3-3	9-5	31-12	0.97	0.45	0.28	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	169	42	218	18	0-3	0-22	11-43	0.25	1.29	0.43	0.18