Ballance Reaches 2024 Saville Grand Prix Quarters

SKIP
James
Ballance

Third
Beau
Cornelson

Second
Nathan
Kelba

Lead
Chris
Pratt

James Ballance (Okotoks/Edmonton, AB) qualified for the 2024 Saville Grand Prix playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-5 against Takumi Maeda (Tokoro, JPN). of the 2024 Saville Grand Prix in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Ballance finished 2-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ballance defeated Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) 5-4, then won 4-2 against Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB). Ballance went on to lose 9-2 against Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB). Ballance lost 12-8 to Peter Hlushak (Spruce Grove, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Ballance earned 9.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Saville Grand Prix. For week 14 of the event schedule, Ballance did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Ballance ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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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