Balsdon4-3 at 2013 Capital One Road to the Roar

SKIP
Greg
Balsdon

Third
Mark
Bice

Second
Tyler
Morgan

Lead
Jamie
Farnell

Greg Balsdon (Toronto, ON) finished 4-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Balsdon defeated Rob Fowler (Brandon, MB) 7-4, then won 10-9 against Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, ON). Balsdon went on to lose 10-5 against John Morris (Vernon, BC). Balsdon responded with a 8-4 win over Joe Frans (Bradford, ON). Balsdon went on to lose 7-6 against Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK). Balsdon responded with a 9-7 win over Mark Kean (Toronto, ON). Balsdon went on to lose 10-4 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in their final qualifying round match.

Balsdon earned 12.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 22nd place overall with 97.105 total points. Balsdon ranks 27th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 26.200 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	39	22	0	0.639	14-12	11-5	7-2	2-1	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	505	376	337	7.45	6.67	0.77	4.55	4.22	1.63	1.58	1.23

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	256	306	65	28	6-0	20-2	67-13	1.20	0.25	0.41	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	249	70	272	34	0-6	4-14	12-59	0.28	1.09	0.52	0.20

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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