Blandford/Blandford2-3 at Alberta Mixed Doubles Qualifier

Darah Blandford/Matthew Blandford (Cold Lake, AB) finished 2-3 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Blandford/Blandford defeated Alberta's Jen Charbonneau/Shane Park 10-4, then won 9-6 against Christa Perepelitza/Rodney Ouellette (Cold Lake, AB) to advance to a A-Qualifier game where they lost 9-5 against Paige Papley/Evan van Amsterdam (Edmonton, AB) to drop into a B-Qualifier game where they lost 10-5 to Kayla Skrlik/Gregg Hamilton (Calgary, AB) to drop into a C-Qualifier game where they lost 7-5 to Brittany Tran/Aaron Sluchinski (Calgary, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Blandford/Blandford earned 1.129 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 668th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 1.13 after improving upon their best so far this season. Blandford/Blandford ranks 133rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 10.344 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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