CHAMPION: Balsdon Wins 2014 Glendale Cash Spiel

SKIP
Greg
Balsdon

Third
Mark
Bice

Second
Tyler
Morgan

Lead
Jamie
Farnell

Greg Balsdon (Hamilton, ON) won 9-8 over Ontario's Don Bowser in the Final of the Glendale Cash Spiel, held October 31 - November 2, 2014 in Hamilton, Ontario. To advance to the championship game, Balsdon won 6-4 over Chris Glibota (Sault Ste Marie, NONT) in the semifinals of the 2014 Glendale Cash Spiel in Hamilton, Ontario; and won 1-0 over Pat Ferris (Grimsby, ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2014 Glendale Cash Spiel in Hamilton, Ontario;

Balsdon finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balsdon defeated Ontario's Todd Brandwood 1-0, then won 6-3 against Damien Villard (Galt, ON). Balsdon went on to lose 8-5 against Ontario's Nick Rizzo. Balsdon responded with a 9-8 win over Ontario's Nathan Martin in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Glendale Cash Spiel Championship title, Balsdon earned 4.500 world rankings points along with the $2,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 22nd place overall with 71.350 total points. Balsdon ranks 44th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.700 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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