CHAMPION: Balsdon Wins 2016 Secker Ross & Perry Eastern Ontario Championship

Kingston, Ontario

SKIP
Greg
Balsdon

Third
Jonathan
Beuk

Second
Don
Bowser

Lead
Scott
Chadwick

Games:	6
Record:	6W - 0L
PF/G:	12.70
PA/G:	3.51
Hammer Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Defense:	0.19
Force Efficiency:	0.89
Steal Efficiency:	0.48

Greg Balsdon (Kingston, ON) won 5-4 over Dayna Deruelle (Brampton , ON) in the Final of the Secker Ross & Perry Eastern Ontario Championship, held December 2 - 4, 2016 in Kingston, Ontario. To advance to the championship game, Balsdon won 11-1 over Chris Glibota (Sudbury, NONT) in the semifinals of the 2016 Secker Ross & Perry Eastern Ontario Championship in Kingston, Ontario; and won 7-2 over Alex Leichter (Boston, USA) in the quarterfinals. of the 2016 Secker Ross & Perry Eastern Ontario Championship in Kingston, Ontario;

Balsdon finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balsdon defeated Scott Buckley (Kingston, ON) 10-1, then won 8-4 against Stephen Watson (Ottawa, ON) and 6-1 against Glenn Garneys (London, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Secker Ross & Perry Eastern Ontario Championship Championship title, Balsdon earned 15.999 world rankings points along with the $2,420CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 20th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 12.676 after improving upon their best so far this season. Balsdon ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 164.285 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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