Balsdon1-6 at 2017 Ontario Scotties

SKIP
Megan
Balsdon

Third
Jessica
Corrado

Second
Stephanie
Corrado

Lead
Laura
Hickey

Megan Balsdon (Mississauga, ON) finished 1-6 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balsdon lost 6-5 to Allison Flaxey (Brampton, ON), then responded with a 7-5 win over Julie Tippin (Woodstock, ON). Balsdon went on to lose 10-3 against Jacqueline Harrison (Mississauga, ON). Balsdon lost 8-5 to Heather Heggestad (Thornhill, ON). Balsdon lost 7-5 to Rachel Homan (Ottawa, ON). Balsdon lost 8-5 to Sherry Middaugh (Coldwater, ON). Balsdon lost 6-4 to Cathy Auld (Dundas, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Balsdon earned 0.776 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Balsdon gained 0.088000000000008 points improving upon their best events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 54thplace overall with 114.039 total points. Balsdon ranks 52nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 75.348 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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