[[5:3.9000]] Ballance Reaches 2025 Saville U25 Challenge Quarters

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Ballance Reaches 2025 Saville U25 Challenge Quarters

Sep 26 - 28, 2025

Okotoks/Edmonton, Alberta
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SKIP
James
Ballance
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Third
Kolby
MacDonald
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Second
Michael
Keenan
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Lead
Oliver
Burton
  
Games: 5  
Record: 2W - 3L  
PF/G: 5.41  
PA/G: 7.84  
Hammer Efficiency: 0.24  
Steal Defense: 0.37  
Force Efficiency: 0.42  
Steal Efficiency: 0.22  
James Ballance (Okotoks/Edmonton, AB) qualified for the 2025 Saville U25 Challenge playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 4-2 against Jacob Libbus (Edmonton, AB). of the 2025 Saville U25 Challenge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;
 
Ballance finished 1-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ballance lost 8-1 to Brayden Heistad (Saskatoon, SK), then responded with a 6-4 win over Sean Borkovic (Edmonton, AB). Ballance went on to lose 7-4 against Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.
 
Ballance earned 3.900 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Saville U25 Challenge, moving up 12 spots the World Ranking Standings into 117th place overall with 15.377 total points. Ballance ranks 79th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.950 points earned so far this season.
 

Statistics

 RECORD W L T PCT HMR STL 1PT EEH EES 
 2026 15 34 0 0.306 3-3 0-3 1-3 0-0 0-0 
 SCORING ENDs PF PA PF/G PA/G +/- EF/G EA/G PF/E PA/E BE/G 
 2026 357 229 279 6.41 7.82 -1.40 3.95 4.73 1.62 1.65 1.32 
 WITH HAMMER ENDs PF PA BE 4s 3s 2s PF/E PA/E HE SD 
 2026 177 172 73 20 3-0 10-4 37-12 0.97 0.41 0.32 0.30 
 WITHOUT HAMMER ENDs PF PA BE 4s 3s 2s PF/E PA/E FE SE 
 2026 180 57 206 27 1-3 5-17 6-45 0.32 1.14 0.44 0.21 

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 Draw Team Game Watch
  1 vs. Heistad (SK) - WTR:150 L 1-8Watch Live Curling!
  2 vs. Borkovic (AB) - WTR:166 W 6-4Watch Live Curling!
  4 vs. Tao (AB) - WTR:52 L 4-7Watch Live Curling!
  6 vs. Derksen (SK) - WTR:101 W 7-6Watch Live Curling!
  QF vs. Libbus (AB) - WTR:44 L 2-4Watch Live Curling!

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W: Curling1spoon Elite 8
Uiseong, KOR
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Draw: CF -- Sun, Aug 2 -- 8:00am CET
Park 8  Final
Kang 7  (8)
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