Ballance Reaches 2025 Saville U25 Challenge Quarters

SKIP
James
Ballance

Third
Kolby
MacDonald

Second
Michael
Keenan

Lead
Oliver
Burton

James Ballance (Okotoks/Edmonton, AB) qualified for the 2025 Saville U25 Challenge playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 4-2 against Jacob Libbus (Edmonton, AB). of the 2025 Saville U25 Challenge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Ballance finished 1-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ballance lost 8-1 to Brayden Heistad (Saskatoon, SK), then responded with a 6-4 win over Sean Borkovic (Edmonton, AB). Ballance went on to lose 7-4 against Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Ballance earned 3.900 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Saville U25 Challenge, moving up 12 spots the World Ranking Standings into 117th place overall with 15.377 total points. Ballance ranks 79th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.950 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	15	34	0	0.306	3-3	0-3	1-3	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	357	229	279	6.41	7.82	-1.40	3.95	4.73	1.62	1.65	1.32

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	177	172	73	20	3-0	10-4	37-12	0.97	0.41	0.32	0.30

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	180	57	206	27	1-3	5-17	6-45	0.32	1.14	0.44	0.21

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