CHAMPION: Balderston Wins 2017 Peace Tour Championship

SKIP
Kurt
Balderston

Third
Les
Sonnenberg

Second
Rob
Bucholz

Lead
Del
Shaughnessy

Kurt Balderston (Grande Prairie, AB) won 6-4 over Warren Cross (Edmonton, AB) in the Final of the Peace Tour Championship, held January 13 - 15, 2017 in Sexsmith, Alberta. To advance to the championship game, Balderston won 9-2 over Graham Powell (Grande Prarie, AB) in the semifinals

Balderston finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balderston lost 5-4 to Powell, then responded with a 6-1 win over Scott Webb (Peace River, AB). Balderston won 7-1 against Stefan Pavlis (Dawson Creek, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Peace Tour Championship Championship title, Balderston earned 6.896 world rankings points along with the $3,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 10 spots the World Ranking Standings into 101st place overall with 53.978 total points. Balderston ranks 74th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 43.478 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

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