Blandford6-2 at Alberta Boston Pizza Southerns

SKIP
Matthew
Blandford

Third
Darren
Moulding

Second
Brent
Hamilton

Lead
Brad
Chyz

Matthew Blandford (Coaldale, AB) finished 6-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Blandford defeated Rick Phillips (Olds, AB) 5-3, then won 8-7 against Mark Pfeifer (Calgary, AB) and 6-2 against Brian McPherson (Calgary, AB). Blandford went on to lose 11-8 against Brock Virtue (Calgary, AB). Blandford lost 8-2 to Brent Bawel (Airdrie, AB) where Blandford responded with a 7-6 win over Sean O'Connor (Calgary, AB). Blandford won 7-6 against Lloyd Hill (Calgary, AB), then won 7-5 against Rhett Friesz (Airdrie, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Blandford earned 1.250 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Alberta Boston Pizza Southerns, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 32nd place overall with 49.395 total points. Blandford ranks 38th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 23.905 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

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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