Balsdon3-3 at 2020 WFG Quebec Tankard

SKIP
Greg
Balsdon

Third
Jeffrey
Stewart

Second
Ian
South

Lead
Christian
Bouchard

Greg Balsdon (Montreal, QC) finished 3-3 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balsdon lost 10-5 to Michael Fournier (Montreal, QC), then responded with a 8-7 win over Scott Hill (Ormstown, QC). Balsdon won 11-5 against Alex Berube (Mont-Bruno, QC), then won 11-1 against Yannick Martel (Saguenay, QC). Balsdon went on to lose 10-7 against Martin Ferland (Trois-Rivieres, QC). Balsdon lost 7-5 to Steven Munroe (Levis, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

Balsdon earned 2.803 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Balsdon move up 7 spots after posting a net gain of 0.358 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 101st overall with 40.380 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Balsdon ranks 101st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 37.934 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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